Re: Orca on Debian

2007-12-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andor Demarteau, le Fri 14 Dec 2007 09:41:22 +0100, a écrit : > > - brltty is installed and brlapi in brltty is enabled (as I compile it > > myself I'm not sure about the debian package) > > And it is running

Re: Orca on Debian

2007-12-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
ut it. In generla the above spes should work but as Jason suggest, do upgrade to at least gnome 2.20 orca 2.20 or maybe even 2.21 (not sure it that'll work) and brltty 3.9 > Martin > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science

Re: Orca on Debian

2007-12-13 Thread Andor Demarteau
Do I mis something important here, or is it a problem with brltty/orca in > combination? cehck if your /etc/brlapi.key is readable for the user which is runnign orca. At least for me that solved the problem. > Regards, Martin > > > -- Andor Demarteau

Re: Etch rc1: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-11-21 Thread Andor Demarteau
regards, Simon > > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) --- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice

Re: debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
porbably lissed the post, sometiems I'm simply deleting stuff as it's too much enw mail :) better pay more attention :) On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:56:38 +0100, a écrit : > > On Tue, 14 Nov 20

Re: debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 10:29:23 +0100, a écrit : > > I'm modifying a recent weekly build to get brltty on it for > > installation/rescue usage. > > Why? Brltty is already in there. ah, alre

Re: debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 10:29:23 +0100, a écrit : > > I'm modifying a recent weekly build to get brltty on it for > > installation/rescue usage. > > Why? Brltty is already in there. hmm I did

debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Andor Demarteau
o the initrd.gz found in hte install/ dir? or is there an other location where athe iamge file is stored where the installer and the remaining parts are. Any details would eb very welcome. regards, Andor -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww:

Re: Laptop Install?

2004-12-22 Thread Andor Demarteau
D but I can't find and docs on that. > Can that be done? > > > > > -- > John G. Heim > University of Wisconsin - Division of Information Technology (DoIT) > 1210 West Dayton St, #4297, Phone: 2-9887 > > To boldly code what no one has coded before. >

Re: Installing gnome and keeping the text based login.

2004-12-13 Thread Andor Demarteau
packages and keep the text based login? Or at least, how > can I revert to it now after installing gnome etc.? > Thanks for any help. > Mat. > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor

Re: Making the access floppy work.

2004-12-06 Thread Andor Demarteau
sier, are there any "access" cd images available > with kernel 2.6 as in versions of the net inst cd image? > > Thanks for any help. > > Mat. > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.nl.lin

installing debian with USb display

2004-11-11 Thread Andor Demarteau
hey people, has soneone tried thre more recent cd-image with usb-displays? I noticed that the recent cd-images have the accessibility-stuff in them again. Wonder if the usb-stuff would work with a kernel 2.6 when there's not uet 3.5 or 3.6 version of brltty on the image. -- Andor Dema

Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?

2004-10-28 Thread Andor Demarteau
per > dialog based configuration via debconf, we (or better, I) have to implement > multiple-device selection support in debconf. That doesnt exactly look > like fun, and it only adds to the complexity, which would need fixup > already anyway. > > -- Andor Demarteau

Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?

2004-10-28 Thread Andor Demarteau
it. Serial display users would > have to open /etc/brltty.conf and add their display driver + the device file > they use and do /etc/init.d/brltty restart. > > Any comments/cries/protests/whatsoever? > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stud

debian install with brltty 3.5|3.6

2004-10-22 Thread Andor Demarteau
hi, I'm glad to build my own install-stuff. However, how can I make a custom udeb from the newest brltty to include in the install? I need 3.5 or 3.6 because of the userspace-usb support for my brialle-display. Any hints would be welcome. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [

Re: A little bit confused about brltty.txt in svn debian installer

2004-10-07 Thread Andor Demarteau
this is more recent, or I'm > trying to use the wrong cd, or I am misunderstanding something here. > Please explain. > If I spent all that time hacking a cd so I could install sarge using > brltty and it was already available, I'd like to know what I missed. > thank

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
e pro's cons. i.e. I'm runnign my new installs all with reiserfs becaues of the journaling and it's faster then ext3fs whihc has journaling too. JFS would be the best, but it isn't quite completely supported yet AFAIK. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
ost stupid > programmers from harming your company too much. I still maintain > the viewpoint, that as a boss, you rather should fire your most stupid > programmers, instead of using Java. BUt thats just me. you refer to it's sandbox model nodoubt ;) -- Andor Demarteau

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: > Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ~$ sudo apt-get > > > What does sudo stand for? > > su is the command that lets you gain super-user rights. > sudo means "as super

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security (WAS: X Accessibility ...)

2004-08-25 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > no, cause install here is an action not an option or switch > I think I understand, now. so you are saying it defines a completely > different mode of command-line interaction in stead of toggling some

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security (WAS: X Accessibility ...)

2004-08-25 Thread Andor Demarteau
is particularly nice with tabcomplation, cause you walk through the options not see them on screen and have to type the next character and tab again. > > perl was created with regexp in mind and a sole > > goal. > True, still I find the Java regexp implementation a bit clunky.

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-24 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > I don't think xmms codecs are supported, but I'm not sure. > By codec , do you really mean compressor decompressor or something more > sophisticated? To me codecs are algorithms that turn some

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-24 Thread Andor Demarteau
anguage. better use java then. Although in bytecode it still is somewhat slow, there are native-compilers around as well > > the list is for debian-access, but access to linux/gnome/x is > > part of that. > Ah, that's good to hear. I'll consider that Gnome access list a

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-24 Thread Andor Demarteau
> be used strictly for Debian specific stuff? Put another way, are we better > off continuing this on a X or Gnome accessibility list if there's such a > thing? I'm interested, don't get me wrong, just thought some other list > might be closer on topic. generally the

Re: Updating the Kernel, Sound Support

2004-08-23 Thread Andor Demarteau
t you could do is add append="console=ttyS0" ot the relevent section in your lilo.conf or even out of a section to make it a global option. This ensures you don't have to type it on the commandlien anymore. For the most part the kernel-image should do everything else. Maybe you ne

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-22 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > on my systems it points to /dev/dsp0 > Ok will check thatt. Umm how exactly? I tried: > > file /dev/dsp and > ls -la /dev/dsp* > but neither of them showed me the target of the link as far

Re: Getting 320x200 in X, Installing Gnome with apt-get

2004-08-22 Thread Andor Demarteau
ver should I use: ati, atimisc or r128? I > suppose r128 is Rage 128 but it could be N-Vidia Riva, hich I really > wouldn't want to select. yes that's the ATI rage128 driver. ATI is good supported btw. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-20 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > OH, ok. What would be a good OSS mixer on the command line? aumix works fine, but ALSA has it's on mixer-tools. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.students.

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-20 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > devicefiles are present yes, this doesn't mena that there are devices > > attached to the files. > Ah, I see. I know that dev/dsp is a symbolik link but that's about it. I'm > bit u

Re: Getting 320x200 in X, Installing Gnome with apt-get

2004-08-20 Thread Andor Demarteau
I have to specify that I'll > manage this config file myself, or what might be the reason why it's not > taking into account my lower resolutions? no, that it will overwrite by update/upgrade of the package. > Another unlikely explanation that came to mind is that the Rage d

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-20 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Andor" == Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro console=ttyS0,9600n81 > Andor> oh jaysus, please remove the # infront of the line. then >

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-19 Thread Andor Demarteau
If you edit inittab you > won't be able to get base-config to speak. depending, if you run base-config during the install befor rebooting. debian-install seams to take care of the serial stuff from a serial install good enough. > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EM

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-19 Thread Andor Demarteau
d invocation) > as I can confirm the sound is working. Umm howabout catting ASCIi text to > /dev/dsps does that produce noise similar to playing back Windows binaries > as raw PCM? yeah probably will work. YOu could also try to find any SUN Audio files (.au) on the web and cat them to

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Andor Demarteau
all it on all the other > machines including my music machine. Though the last time I looked, MIDI > Sport 2x2 was supported but 4x4 was not. Oh well. well, maybe the newest 2.6.x kernel will. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Andor Demarteau
owed root-logins. This si for security-reasons. > Gotta get some sleep as it's about 1 at the morning here. > Yet again thanks to everyone who contributed in this thread. You saved my > day. Glad to be of help. > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] s

Re: Serial Install Help and IRC Daemon Idea (WAS: New Member INtro ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Andor Demarteau
ay have > something to contribute. When we get mostly down to personal stuff, I'll > take it off-list then. grand. > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-17 Thread Andor Demarteau
ptop came with a > special USB-based serial port adapter that appears to work fine. Now, I'd > say that's really merging new and old technology. yeah I noticed that too, irritating thatis sometimes. cheers, -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student

brltty in d-i install cd?

2004-06-10 Thread Andor Demarteau
happy about it. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer sciencewww: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) --- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-cha

Re: debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

2004-01-05 Thread Andor Demarteau
g. As you may have read, I've posted a long test-list from different settings which all do not work unforunately. > > Any quick response would be appriciated. > > Time is money. > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science

debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

2004-01-03 Thread Andor Demarteau
ld my network-driver (3c905 fro 3com), darned cause that's a quite common card IMHO I'd still be interested in brltyy-enabled woody-disks as I would really like to install stable. Any quick response would be appriciated. best regards and ahppy new year to all, Andor -- Andor Demarteau

brltty for debian, test results

2004-01-02 Thread Andor Demarteau
final test: - changed the rcS file according specs - changed line 21 in the inittab to reflect tty instead of null - kept line 25 to udbootstrap The screen blinks twice as it did before no text nope this ain't working. It seams another fix is needed. any suggestions? -- Andor Demarteau