Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2025-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 07:45:45PM +0100 schrieb Holger Wansing: > We now reached the point, where all this can be seen/tested in the wild aka > via daily built images. > Please note, that the last relevant change did not reach testing yet, so you > will have to install sid from a trix

Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

2024-12-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie". Foreword I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various installer

Re: Speech mode of Debian installer

2024-11-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roland Clobus, le sam. 23 nov. 2024 15:34:49 +0100, a ecrit: > On 19/11/2024 14:17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Cc-ing debian-accessibility at least for information. > > Roland Clobus, le mar. 19 nov. 2024 12:31:15 +0100, a ecrit: > > > (I've noticed e.g. 'Chinese letter - Chinese letter' being spok

Re: Speech mode of Debian installer

2024-11-23 Thread Roland Clobus
Hello Samuel, lists, On 19/11/2024 14:17, Samuel Thibault wrote: Cc-ing debian-accessibility at least for information. Roland Clobus, le mar. 19 nov. 2024 12:31:15 +0100, a ecrit: The most striking recording is at step 2:6:1 https://openqa.debian.net/tests/325775/file/bootwalk_2:6:1-captured.w

Re: Speech mode of Debian installer

2024-11-19 Thread Didier Spaier
On 19/11/2024 14:17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > For the screen reader to work, we have to use the linux console, not > an fbterm. For some reason, this reminds me of the nosh package: https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/index.html and of one of its features: https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/brltty.html

Speech mode of Debian installer

2024-11-19 Thread Roland Clobus
Hello list, Recently I've enabled the recording of the audio that is generated by espeakup in the speech version of the installer (netinst image) in openQA. The first step of the installer is recorded. You can see the result here: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/325775 The most striking reco

Re: Speech mode of Debian installer

2024-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cc-ing debian-accessibility at least for information. Roland Clobus, le mar. 19 nov. 2024 12:31:15 +0100, a ecrit: > The most striking recording is at step 2:6:1 > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/325775/file/bootwalk_2:6:1-captured.wav > which is about 5 minutes long and lists 78 language

Re: Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

2023-10-22 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Oct 22, 2023, at 10:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Note that you need to select the graphical boot entry in order to get > speech support. > > Beeping might not be supported on the mac mini, but if it's grub, the > "s" shortcut should be working. None of the apple products wi

Re: Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

2023-10-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Note that you need to select the graphical boot entry in order to get speech support. Beeping might not be supported on the mac mini, but if it's grub, the "s" shortcut should be working. Samuel

Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

2023-10-21 Thread Will
Wonder if anyone else has seen this before and knows a way to get speakup running with out the menu. I have tried editing the grub.cfg file and adding the string speakup.synth=soft to the regular install options as well as text install. I have gotten to this menu that says Debian installer main

Debian Installer Bookworm RC 4 release

2023-05-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fourth release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release * cdebconf: - Improve banner display when the installer logo's width is smaller than t

Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3 release

2023-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release * finish-install: - Adjust APT cache cleaning to avoid breaking bash completion (#1034650

Debian Installer Bookworm RC 2 release

2023-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release * apt-setup: - Enable -updates when installing testing, not only when installing (old)stabl

Debian Installer Bookworm RC 1 release

2023-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release * debian-cd: - Use hard links instead of symlinks for firmware packages (#1031696).

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 9, 2023, at 13:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 09 mars 2023 13:24:10 -0500, a ecrit: >> -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex > > Ok, I tried it and it worked here. Possibly there is something different > in UTM vs qemu in Debian. I was able to get it to work

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 09 mars 2023 13:24:10 -0500, a ecrit: > -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex Ok, I tried it and it worked here. Possibly there is something different in UTM vs qemu in Debian. Samuel

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-09 Thread Frank Carmickle
entry that should be "install with speech" I don't >> get any output at all on the serial line. > > You mean after validating in a grub menu that does show up on the serial > line? > > Please be *very* precise in your report, since I have no idea how things > are happening on your side. > >> I've been trying to find the build instructions for the Debian Installer. Do >> you know where I can find them? > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build > but quite often there are rough edges. Thanks for that. Best, --FC

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-09 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hello, > Am 08.03.2023 um 01:18 schrieb Samuel Thibault : > > I have updated the image above with the latest kernel from debian, which > now includes sound drivers, could you download it again and try it? I've also tried it and both installation with speech or braille worked on a M1 Mac into a

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
phical window or the terminal) > When I arrow down to the entry that should be "install with speech" I don't > get any output at all on the serial line. You mean after validating in a grub menu that does show up on the serial line? Please be *very* precise in your report

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-08 Thread Frank Carmickle
t I can't tell because when I press 's' it gives me the graphical installer. When I arrow down to the entry that should be "install with speech" I don't get any output at all on the serial line. Thanks for providing us another image to test. I was going to write you mail yesterday, just before you sent this, to ask you to build another. I've been trying to find the build instructions for the Debian Installer. Do you know where I can find them? Best, --FC

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
GUI at all. Other > consoles work fine. > > A big help would be to include nmcli or nmtui in the utilities installed > with the Debian installer. > > Who do I speak to about this? > Also it would be very beneficial if a question be asked during installation > if the user w

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
s work fine. A big help would be to include nmcli or nmtui in the utilities installed with the Debian installer. Who do I speak to about this? Also it would be very beneficial if a question be asked during installation if the user wishes to log into command line or graphical mode. Duri

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Logs should be sent to debian-boot list if memory serves and size doesn't matter on that list either. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, john doe wrote: >

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread john doe
On 3/8/23 07:11, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: I'll be glad to do that, Samuel. Tonight I got a system installed, but again it will not allow me to log in How are you installing it/What step are you doing? with my user name. I have to log in as root then su to my user name. But then I cannot star

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-07 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
I'll be glad to do that, Samuel. Tonight I got a system installed, but again it will not allow me to log in with my user name. I have to log in as root then su to my user name. But then I cannot start X with my user account. Please tell me exactly what log files and their locations you will need

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: > On Feb 14, 2023, at 6:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > >>> I've tried different emulated

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, D.J.J. Ring, wrote: > I used the text installer to install speech, but no speech was heard > during installation. Usually that is because the firmware hasn't been > included. The old "non-free" images worked fine before, but I guess > not all the firmware that was in the "non-free" images

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-07 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
27;s just a small thing of firmware but lack of firmware makes it very difficult to install Debian. Regards, David On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 4:59 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Pointing out the accessibility-related pieces: > > Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 19 févr. 2023 13:31:15

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chevelle, le jeu. 23 févr. 2023 20:34:10 -0500, a ecrit: >     I was using 'quickemu'.  I think I tried > > quickemu --vm --braille --display sdl Oh, interesting that they have an accessibility documentation section :) > I'm not sure from the instructions how it is supposed to work. Should > 'br

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-23 Thread Chevelle
Sorry, the command was: quickemu --vm debian.conf --braille --display sdl On 2/23/2023 8:34 PM, Chevelle wrote: I was using 'quickemu'.  I think I tried quickemu --vm --braille --display sdl I'm not sure from the instructions how it is supposed to work. Should 'brltty' be running before we

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-23 Thread Chevelle
    I was using 'quickemu'.  I think I tried quickemu --vm --braille --display sdl I'm not sure from the instructions how it is supposed to work. Should 'brltty' be running before we start the virtual machine, or not.  I searched around, but couldn't find clear instructions. Thanks. On 2/2

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chevelle, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 21:46:46 -0500, a ecrit: > update-rc.d: Warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported: falling > back to defaults > > Not sure if this is a problem or not, That is not a problem. > because I haven't gotten the Braille device working under the VM.

BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-20 Thread Chevelle
rking under the VM. Forwarded Message Subject: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release Resent-Date:Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:31:43 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:31:15 +0100 From: Cyril Brulebois Rep

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le sam. 18 févr. 2023 11:11:16 +0100, a ecrit: > The reason why I am not able to install the system is because of the missing > kernel modules. Ok, that's expected at this time. > The harddisk can not be found by the installer. And this is just a consequence. Now, whethe

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pointing out the accessibility-related pieces: Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 19 févr. 2023 13:31:15 +0100, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second alpha release > of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". > > Following the 2022 Genera

Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second alpha release of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Following the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware[2], many packages containing firmware files that can be requested by the Linux kernel at runtime were

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-18 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi again, > Am 18.02.2023 um 10:48 schrieb Christian Schoepplein : > One other big problem is again the not working caps lock key. AFAIK all key > shortcuts to read out the screen in the speech based installer do need this > key to navigate through the screen. So maybe I might have been able to

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-18 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Samuel, Frank and all, sorry, had no time to work on this during the last days… > Am 15.02.2023 um 00:21 schrieb Samuel Thibault : > I have uploaded a test image, could you give it a try from: > > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/mini.iso > Booting the ISO and start installation with sp

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
Samuel, > On Feb 15, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: >> The first thing to note is that the image does not come up talking at all in >> stock configuration. > > What is "the stock configuration"? Does that include a

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: > The first thing to note is that the image does not come up talking at all in > stock configuration. What is "the stock configuration"? Does that include a framebufer device? If not, that's expected: speakup only works with an actua

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
to download components from deb.debian.org <http://deb.debian.org/>. It says that it can't find the kernel modules. It's also not detecting disks, either scsi or virtio. I guess it's just early days for the bookworm debian installer. Once I get through this hurtle I'

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: > Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > > I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being > > loaded for any sound cards. > > Indeed, the sound drivers have not been included in t

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-14 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello Samuel, Thanks for the clarification. I look forward to trying it out. Thanks for all of your work. --FC > On Feb 13, 2023, at 4:41 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: >> I've tried different emulated sound devices bu

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being > loaded for any sound cards. Indeed, the sound drivers have not been included in the arm images. When the issue with wxwidgets will be solved, I'll

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Feb 13, 2023, at 1:57 PM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi Frank, > >> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : >> >> The utm documentation at >> >> https://docs.getutm.app >> >> indicates that you can disable capslock, specifically for use with screen >> readers. I have no

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Feb 13, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi again, > > >> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : >> Yet another thing likely needing work after I get something running, pc >> speaker emulation. I'm guessing that we don't have it enabled in the >> appstore build

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Christian, > On Feb 13, 2023, at 10:29 AM, Christian Schoepplein > wrote: > > Hi Frank and all, > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 03:05:50PM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote: >> When using the arm64 installer no beep tone was played, but this might be >> because the whole system is running in a V

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi again, > Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : > Yet another thing likely needing work after I get something running, pc > speaker emulation. I'm guessing that we don't have it enabled in the appstore > build of utm. I hope to be wrong about this. Yes, I think this does not work

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Frank, > Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : > > The utm documentation at > > https://docs.getutm.app > > indicates that you can disable capslock, specifically for use with screen > readers. I have not figured out where you turn this setting on, as it isn't > in the app prefer

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Because the device is connected via USB the normal > installer can recognize the braille device and the textbased installation > will start automaticaly. > > However, one points differ from a normal installation on amd64 systems. > During software selection no grafical environment and

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread K0LNY_Glenn
it is not that KVM isn't connecting the VM to the soundcard. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Christian Schoepplein" To: "Debian Accessibility Team" Sent: Monday, February 13, 2023 9:29 AM Subject: Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64 Hi Frank and a

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Frank and all, On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 03:05:50PM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote: >When using the arm64 installer no beep tone was played, but this might be >because the whole system is running in a VM. So either pressing "s" does not >work in the arm64 installer or we just don't know whe

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
l installation on amd64 systems. During software selection no grafical environment and therefore also no Mate desktop was selected, but this is the default on amd64 installations IIRC. I don't know if this an issue of the installer or if its related to some hardware settings for the VM, e

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Christian, > On Feb 13, 2023, at 3:50 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:07:14PM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote: >> I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm >> wrapped qemu on Macos. > &g

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:07:14PM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote: >I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm >wrapped qemu on Macos. I've just installed Debian this way on a M1 Mac yesterday with braille. >I've tried different emulat

debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-12 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm wrapped qemu on Macos. I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being loaded for any sound cards. Thee modules aren't even in /lib/module/KERNELVER. I'm pretty sure t

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1 release

2022-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
ille devices. > * cdebconf: > - text: Make steps interruptible (#998424). > - text: Use libreadline and history to allow choosing with arrows. > * debian-installer: > - Start speech synthesis automatically, after a 30-second timeout. > * espeakup: > - Print t

Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1 release

2022-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". A number of changes were submitted by Debian Janitor and merged into the many components that the installer is assembled out of, and they're not documented ind

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
it was an oldie. Good news, however, is that it's now in the official images, so you can use https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/gtk/mini.iso > is there an option to include any non-free firmware into the > iso image Not directly with the debian installer, using debia

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I went to that site but the mini.iso file is no longer there.  Does the tmp directory get cleaned up after sometime as on future posts this would be useful to mention?  For those advanced users who want to build the debian-installer with software speech in the mini.iso after we clone the

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-25 Thread Halim Sahin
Am 13.04.22 um 23:47 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Hello, I have improved the choice selection in the speech-enabled Debian installer, please give it a try: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/mini.iso The idea is that one can now not only type the number followed by enter, but also select

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-17 Thread Devin Prater
I tried it in a VM, and it works very well. Thanks so much for all your work! Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:48 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > I have improved the choice selection in the speech-enabled Debian > installer, please give it a tr

Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have improved the choice selection in the speech-enabled Debian installer, please give it a try: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/mini.iso The idea is that one can now not only type the number followed by enter, but also select the answer with the arrow keys and press enter to

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread john doe
seconds is the default for sleep utility. Ok :) But then I don't understand why you say that the loop is too quick? In the debian installer there is a 5 second delay after the echo. I did retested and there is clearly a 5 seconds delay in the loop. So I withdraw my comment. Sorry for the noise. -- John Doe

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
#x27;speakup' will take about 2 minutes to speak the phrase. > > > > I don't understand. How is it that it takes 2 minutes? The default > > speech rate is not that slow. > > > > My bad, I meant 'seconds' and not 'minutes' as seconds is the default > for sleep utility. Ok :) But then I don't understand why you say that the loop is too quick? In the debian installer there is a 5 second delay after the echo. Samuel

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread john doe
On 1/8/2022 6:46 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: john doe, le sam. 08 janv. 2022 18:34:14 +0100, a ecrit: On 1/8/2022 3:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: - The infinit loop is way to quick to here what is said at every iteration. Do you hear anything at all? Yes I do here the message properly. In t

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le sam. 08 janv. 2022 18:34:14 +0100, a ecrit: > On 1/8/2022 3:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > - The infinit loop is way to quick to here what is said at every > > > iteration. > > > > Do you hear anything at all? > > Yes I do here the message properly. > > In the below infinitwhi

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread john doe
On 1/8/2022 3:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: - The infinit loop is way to quick to here what is said at every iteration. Do you hear anything at all? Samuel Yes I do here the message properly. In the below infinitwhile loop, I can here the value of the echo statement and I have a fiew secon

Re: Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, john doe, le ven. 07 janv. 2022 09:31:02 +0100, a ecrit: > While I was installing 'Debian With Speech' with qemu option '--soundhw > all' to have multiple sound cards > - I have three sound cards detected but I have no clue which one is > about to be selected. The one which you have just

Feedback on Debian Installer

2022-01-07 Thread john doe
Debians, This is not a question/asking for help, simply me telling my findings/observations!!! :) While I was installing 'Debian With Speech' with qemu option '--soundhw all' to have multiple sound cards, I got: "Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. amixer: Invalid command! amixer: Inva

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

2021-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner wrote: > The torrent mirror seems to have a bug, i was not able to download the > unofficial release using a bittorrent clinet, but i was able to download it > with http/ftp This is completely out of our area :) I don't know who would be best to contact, but probably

Bug#992699: debian-installer: Firmwares required for some sound cards

2021-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20210731 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i Hello, As mentioned in the Bullseye errata, there seems to be a number of sound cards that require loading a firmware to be able to emit sound (e.g. Intel SOF). Unfortunately currently the installer loads firmware after

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

2021-08-09 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
2021 kl. 15.10 skrev Samuel Thibault: Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 02 août 2021 11:59:51 +0200, a ecrit: The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". Now is the last opportunity to make some tests before t

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

2021-08-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 02 août 2021 11:59:51 +0200, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third > release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". Now is the last opportunity to make some tests before the release which is planned

Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

2021-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". Let's start with some news regarding firmware support (#989863): - We don't want to leave users in the dark if the installed system doesn't b

Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". I'd like to personally thank Simon McVittie for going above and beyond the call of duty, providing us with an incredible amount of support on the cdebcon

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Am 12.05.2021 um 12:10 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Normally if you install with speech, the levels during the installer (which apparently with vmware may need to get bumped thanks to the speakup shortcut) will get propagated. So you were actually talking about the volume of the orca speech at the

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le mer. 12 mai 2021 13:17:31 +0200, a ecrit: > Am 12.05.2021 um 12:10 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > Sure, the file is just recording the level that you are getting by > > default from the sound card driver. > > OK. but why did I not have this volume problem before? No idea,

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nick Gawronski, le mer. 12 mai 2021 17:45:37 -0500, a ecrit: > if I selected gnome does speech also get enabled Yes, but by default gnome uses wayland, in which Orca doesn't really work. > and what if you select both gnome and mate? Both would get installed. I don't know which would would get st

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I also tested that DVD iso file and got an accessible console and desktop.  I added the web server and ssh server options to the already selected options but was just wondering if I selected gnome does speech also get enabled and what if you select both gnome and mate?  Nick Gawronski On 5

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mer. 12 mai 2021 18:35:07 -0400, a ecrit: > Okay, Now I got the correct iso installed everything works and speech > comes on with an entirely acceptable volume level. Ok sot the fix works for you, thanks for confirming! Samuel

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, Now I got the correct iso installed everything works and speech comes on with an entirely acceptable volume level. On Wed, 12 May 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le mer. 12 mai 2021 14:25:22 -0400, a ecrit: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-includi

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mer. 12 mai 2021 14:25:22 -0400, a ecrit: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.9.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/firmware-10.9.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso That is buster, not bullseye rc1, so it does not contain the fix mentioned in the thread. Please t

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I forgot to mention, when I did the install with the firmware flavor I ran the integrity check from the menu and the integrity check was successful. On Wed, 12 May 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le mer. 12 mai 2021 11:18:59 -0400, a ecrit: > > The firmware version had no accessibi

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.9.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/firmware-10.9.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso I tried the bittorrent url for this file first but the torrent was dead. Nothing happened on it. On Wed, 12 May 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell,

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mer. 12 mai 2021 11:18:59 -0400, a ecrit: > The firmware version had no accessibility after install That's not expected. Which URL did you use exactly? > When this thread came up, I got curious so decided to check this out. Thanks! The more testing we have, the least bugs ther

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yesterday I installed both the firmware and official versions of this release. In both versions speech was used to do the installs. The firmware version had no accessibility after install but the official version had accessibility after installation. When this thread came up, I got curious so de

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Am 12.05.2021 um 10:36 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Mmm, were you actually using speech synthesis during the installer? We copy over the audio parameters only if speech was used. I was not using speech during installation, only braille... Thats how I install and use Debian systems for years. I i

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le mer. 12 mai 2021 12:03:59 +0200, a ecrit: > Am 12.05.2021 um 10:36 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > > > Mmm, were you actually using speech synthesis during the installer? We > > copy over the audio parameters only if speech was used. > > I was not using speech during insta

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le mer. 12 mai 2021 10:28:50 +0200, a ecrit: > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:41:15PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 11 mai 2021 18:12:50 +0200, a ecrit: > >> the file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state is not present directly after the > >> installation

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 11 mai 2021 18:12:50 +0200, a ecrit: > the file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state is not present directly after the > installation :-( At least that explains why the fix is not getting effect in your case. We now need to determine why the fix is not triggering. There is a

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 11 mai 2021 18:12:50 +0200, a ecrit: > the file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state is not present directly after the > installatio :-( : Is it really the rc1 image that you are testing? Which URL did you use to download it? (details always matter) Samuel

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-11 Thread Christian Schoepplein
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:23:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Christian Schoepplein, le sam. 08 mai 2021 15:03:54 +0200, a ecrit: >> On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit: >> >> > Am 23.04.2021 um

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-09 Thread Christian Schoepplein
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:23:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >- Do you end up with a /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file on the installed >> > system? >> >- Please post the content of that file >> >> The file ist also there. It looks like this: >> > >> control.2 { >> iface M

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le sam. 08 mai 2021 15:03:54 +0200, a ecrit: > Hi Samuel, > > On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit: > >> > Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault : > >> >> * espeakup: >

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-08 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Samuel, On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit: >> > Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault : >> >> * espeakup: >> >>- Carry over the alsa mixer levels into the installed system. >> >> I’v

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit: > > Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault : > >> * espeakup: > >>- Carry over the alsa mixer levels into the installed system. > > I’ve installed two Bullseye systems with the rc1 installer. today While the >

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-07 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hello, > Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault : > > Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 07:21:43 +0200, a ecrit: >> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first >> release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 07:21:43 +0200, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first > release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". And notably for this list: > * brltty: > - Updated to version 6.3 >

Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". Improvements in this release * base-installer: - Re-add the removed is_ports_architecture() function - it's used by

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