Bug#869972: libbrlapi-dev: Missing model specific headers (brldefs-xx.h)

2017-07-28 Thread Mario Lang
Package: libbrlapi-dev Version: 5.4-7+b1 Severity: normal Hi. BRLTTY exports model-specific headers to make key codes (and a few other things) available as enums... These are important for BrlAPI clients that make use of "raw keycode" mode. BRLTTY installs these into /usr/include/brltty/: $ ls

Welcome!

2003-02-27 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone! This is (if I'm not mistaken) the first message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to introduce the topic, and say some initial words to get discussion started. First of all, I want to express my thanks to the listmasters for finally creat

Web browsing Was: Re: Welcome!

2003-03-03 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first point should be "Browsing the Web". So please share your tips > so that I can report them in the manual, The two most important VFAQs which come to mind are: 1. How to enable the cursor in lynx? (Option SHOW_CURSOR:TRUE in lynx.cfg or -show_curs

Gnopernicus Was: Re: Welcome!

2003-03-03 Thread Mario Lang
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, gnome-speech is waiting in queue/NEW, and preliminary packages of > gnopernicus are in my "staging" repository; see > http://people.debian.org/~walters/ Great great great! News. I managed to compile all that stuff from source without problems, now I

Re: Web browsing Was: Re: Welcome!

2003-03-04 Thread Mario Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A few years ago I hd a shell account on a US free shell provider, and I > was wondered that they have as well a lynx as a blynx command to launch > lynx, depending on the user; but that ws for me a good option, and I > should suggest to make the proposal of including bo

at-spi

2003-03-04 Thread Mario Lang
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any feedback on the packages are appreciated; I haven't been able to > really test them extensively myself. I think at-spi is missing sgmltools-lite from Build-Depends-Indep, since I got some File-no-found msg during compiling it (.../sgmltools.cat) whi

Re: Web browsing

2003-03-04 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> first point should be "Browsing the Web". So please share your tips >>> so that I can report them

QuickStart Guide on Compiling and Installing Gnopernicus

2003-03-05 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Colin Walters recently announced that he has ready-made Gnopernicus and gnome-speech packages. I'm just summarizing how to get those installed on your system for people interested. Colin is using powerpc for development, so most of you will not

Re: Brltty on first debian Install-disk

2003-03-10 Thread Mario Lang
[A added debian-accessibility as CC, because this topic might be interesting to other parties to.] "Attila Konietzka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question to you is regarding the Brltty on the 1st Debian cd. Will it be > possible for brltty to be started right from the cd during the install

Re: Debian Accessibility Project

2003-03-10 Thread Mario Lang
"Kieran O'Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some suggestions for your page. > > 1. SVGATextMode is not mentioned this provides large characters on the > console and is reasonably good. The problem I see with SVGATextMode is, that it is considered obsolete. It does not work with framebuffer

Re: Debian Installer

2003-03-16 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a version of Debian Installer which will use a screen > reader to give access to the installation program? If you are saying "screen reader", what do you mean exactly? There is a "version" of the Debian Installer (currently under development) whic

Speakup-enabled installer Was: Re: Debian Installer

2003-03-17 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is there a version of Debian Installer which will use a screen >> > reader to give access to t

Re: Debian Installer

2003-03-17 Thread Mario Lang
Luke Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > linux-speakup.org, has a Debian installer with speakup, if that is what > you desire. The latest information I have about the speakup-enabled woody boot-floppies is that they do not work. Do you have any other information regarding this? Quoting the READ

Debian Installer disk with BRLTTY (alpha version)

2003-03-20 Thread Mario Lang
Hello. I'm toying with this since November last year or so, but I just managed to do a complete install with the brltty enabled d-i install disk. If anyone is interested and wants to have a look at how current state of things are, give it a shot. Just remember to backup your data before you do a

Re: problems with the speakup kernel package

2003-03-24 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I just tried to install the speakup kernel package. I had just > dist-upgraded the system from Woody to Sarge so I could install this > package. > > When the system rebooted my synth started to speak but the system > immediately hung. Even pressing c

Gnopernicus entered unstable [owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System)] Bug#160783 acknowledged by developer (Bug#160783: fixed in gnopernicus 0.0.2+cvs20030320-1)

2003-03-25 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. I just wanted to inform you all that Gnopernicus was just uploaded to unstable. Thanks to Colin! If anyone finds time to play with it, a report of your success or failures to this list would be nice and probably helpful to get other people started. --- Begin Message --- This is an automatic

Re: speakup 1.5 released

2003-04-17 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I just wanted to let everyone know that speakup 1.5 has been > released. I will look at packaging this in about a week or so, when I end my holidays. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger [EMAI

Re: brltty netinst floppy

2003-05-04 Thread Mario Lang
in d-i CVS. I should probably generated a new brltty enabled netinst image soonish. > What am I supposed to do at this point? Usually, you do not need any extra udeb modules. The required ones are auto-selected by anna, so you just say "q" for quit, and anna should start downloading

Status of Gnopernicus in Sid?

2003-05-15 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Did anyone here get the version of gnopernicus in sid to talk? And I mean really talk, not just output the "Welcome to Gnopernicus" message? - From what I read on the gnome-accessibility-list, it seems recent changes in GNOME and in Gnopernicus s

The Accessibility gconf key for GNOME2

2003-05-21 Thread Mario Lang
Hello. I just made some progress with regards to Gnopernicus. Mails on gnome-accessibility-list suggested that currently, accessibility features need to be explicitly enabled for GNOME. The command-line to do this is: gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true Af

GNOME Accessibility Continued

2003-05-21 Thread Mario Lang
Hi Accessibilities :-) It seems the activation of the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf key did it! Gnopernicus now speaks its internal menus, and even launching other GNOME apps seems to sort of work. There are still many difficulties, for instance, if a new window is opened, only "Cr

Re: Status of Gnopernicus in Sid?

2003-05-21 Thread Mario Lang
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 16:28, Mario Lang wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi. >> >> Did anyone here get the version of gnopernicus in sid to talk? >> And I mean reall

Re: Status of Gnopernicus in Sid?

2003-05-21 Thread Mario Lang
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 09:30, Mario Lang wrote: > >> This is not really a bug, but a feature :-). Blinkies usually >> work with speech at that rate. Everything below is a pain to work with. >> I agree though that this sho

Gnopernicus speech rate Was: Re: Status of Gnopernicus in Sid?

2003-05-22 Thread Mario Lang
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Done. The speech at least has never really worked for me; it sounds > like it's coming out *way* too fast. I haven't had a chance to > investigate. You can change the speech rate of Gnopernicus under Input/Output settings -> Speech settings ->

[speakup]: Last call for help

2003-05-23 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. The release-critical bug on speakup (hangs on boot) is still open, and there was no progress in the last two weeks or so. I'd like to re-emphasis that I do not own any speakup compatible device, and so am unable to reproduce the problem, let alone fix it. Since a release-critical bug is some

Re: brltty netinst floppy

2003-05-23 Thread Mario Lang
"Justin Ekis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Mario Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> Before I do anything speakup related with d-i, the release-critical >> bugs on kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup need to be fixed. According >> to those repo

Re: Problem to read the entire screen on Sid with BRLTTY

2003-05-23 Thread Mario Lang
Hi Nath. Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today I try to install Debian sid in order to build Gnopernicus and > gnome-speech and I encounter a very big problem in using for example > debconf or modconf. > In the Debian woody we can see exactly where we are on the braille > display when for exa

Re: Problem to read the entire screen on Sid with BRLTTY

2003-05-23 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> What exactly did you change? I suggest trying out the readline interface, >> which is line-based. > > I have some similar display troubles with modconf on wo

Re: Problem when trying to install gnopernicus package

2003-05-30 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today I try to install gnopernicus on a fresh installed Knoppix (debian > unstable) on my hard disk. > First I installed the gnome-core package and the suggested packages > gnome-control-center, gnome-panel, gnome-session, gnome-terminal and > gnome-help. But af

Re: Problem when trying to install gnopernicus package

2003-05-30 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > So my question : what can I do to solve this issue ? >> >> I'm a bit puzzled why you do not have libgnome-mag1. What is the >> deb line in /etc/apt/sources.list you are using? >> > I tried to understand a little mor what is appening and saw that the > probl

Bug#195545: whiptail: Wrong cursor position in listboxes

2003-05-31 Thread Mario Lang
Package: whiptail Version: 0.51.4-6 Severity: important Tag: patch The listbox.c code in libnewt has a little bug which results in the cursor being placed one line below the actually highlighted item in a listbox when no border is drawn. This is problematic for serial consoles which do not show t

Re: Problem to read the entire screen on Sid with BRLTTY

2003-06-17 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tested dialog/whiptail by hand, and dialog has the behavior we don't > want (only buttons are selectable with cursor, items in lists are just > color selected). whiptail works fine : , move down/up (I can't > reproduce the display bug I have with modconf

Mozilla 1.4 and Gnopernicus with GNOME 2.2

2003-07-15 Thread Mario Lang
[I am CC'ing this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since someone there might know the answer to this question.] Hello. I used Mozilla 1.3 with enabled accessibility support already a little bit under Gnopernicus -- the GNOME screen reader -- on a Debian system. It was speaking the menus, and it also

Re: Mozilla 1.4 and Gnopernicus with GNOME 2.2

2003-07-22 Thread Mario Lang
tain that this is not the case. Hope this clarifies things a little bit, Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I am CC'ing this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since > someone there might know the answer to this question.] > > Hello. > > I used Mozilla 1.3 with

Re: error when starting Festival

2003-07-28 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i try to run Festival on a debian testing/unstable. I installed the > festival package and its dependencies. I installed two voices packages > too but when I start Festival as root or as a normal user by invoking > the festival binary I obtain an error saying tha

Re: Is Debian Gnome 2.2 with Gnopernicus actually working ?

2003-08-11 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I decided to re-install the Debian Gnome 2 > packages. But unfortunatly after installing and launching the startx > script I obtain the same errors I obtained the last time I installed and > try all these packages. To give you an idea about these errors here is >

Bug#204965: atk1.0: Version 1.2.4 seems too old for proper accessibility support

2003-08-11 Thread Mario Lang
Package: atk1.0 Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: wishlist It appears that version 1.2.4 of atk is getting a bit out-dated for the latest accessibility related software in GNOME. When launching applications, warnings like the following appear: (metacity:4390): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1082: u

Re: FYI: Debian, Knoppix/Oralux and Emacspeak

2003-08-11 Thread Mario Lang
I am a little bit confused towards what your actual question is. You seem to have problems getting eflite to work with emacspeak. However, as far as I could see, you did not include anything which might help us with figuring out what your actual problem is. Could you at least try and give a concret

Re: making debconf use whiptail

2003-08-12 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I have a friend having problems using the dialog interface to > debconf. We both run testing/unstable, but my setup uses whiptail for > dialogs while his system uses dialog. Could someone tell me what to do > to make debconf use whiptail by default?

Re: FYI: Debian, Knoppix/Oralux and Emacspeak

2003-08-12 Thread Mario Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janusz S. Bień) writes: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am a little bit confused towards what your actual question is. > > This is the question: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janusz S. Bień) writes: > &g

Re: making debconf use whiptail

2003-08-20 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi. I have a friend having problems using the dialog interface to >> > debconf. We both run tes

glibc 2.3.2 kills ViaVoice

2003-08-20 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Just in case you wonder why your viavoice suddenly segfaults: It seems that the latest upgrade to glibc 2.3.2 is responsible for this. I do not have any details yet, and I am unsure if I really want to investigate this issue. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer http://debian.org/> | G

Re: glibc 2.3.2 kills ViaVoice

2003-08-20 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just in case you wonder why your viavoice suddenly segfaults: >> It seems that the latest upgrade to glibc 2.3.2 is responsible for this. >> I do not have any details yet,

Re: glibc 2.3.2 kills ViaVoice

2003-08-20 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It is sad to see such a good product die like this, after all, none >> of the currently existing commercial speech synthesizers for Linux >> do match ViaVoice's respons

Status of the gnopernicus package

2003-08-21 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I am actively working on getting gnopernicus 0.3.6 into sid. However, there appeared problems which prevent me from uploading the already finished gnopernicus and gnome-speech packages: When launching gnopernicus 0.3.6 srcore segfaults and exits. So far, I h

Re: brltty 3.3 packages

2003-08-22 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I just installed the new version of brltty yesterday, but I don't always >>have my braille display connected. This has never presented a problem >>before, but now brltty outputs a failed log message every 5 seconds >>which can in just a few days fill up /v

Re: debian installer and speakup

2003-08-22 Thread Mario Lang
Frank Carmickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I would like to help in getting speakup in to the debian installation > system. That is a good time! I have just created the 'access' floppy flavour in d-i. Check it out from CVS, we basicly just have to set a special kernel version/n

Re: debian install disks with brltty

2003-08-28 Thread Mario Lang
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I realize that debian's installation will be quite different in >> future distributions and this method will become obsolete, but woody >> will be with us yet for a while and I appreciate having the option >> o

Re: no brltty after knoppix hd-install

2003-09-03 Thread Mario Lang
"attila konietzka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just installing Knoppix-debian 3.2 on my harddrive, and was so happy > that everything went so smoothly. > But after i rebooted my system the surprise came...no Brltty. > I clarified it in the syslinux.cfg and still it didn't come up. > So why

Re: debian installer and speakup

2003-09-05 Thread Mario Lang
Frank Carmickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mario Lang wrote: > >> That is a good time! I have just created the 'access' >> floppy flavour in d-i. Check it out from CVS, we basicly >> just have to set a special kernel version/

Re: installing brltty with apt-get

2003-09-07 Thread Mario Lang
"attila konietzka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now that i managed to install debian without any sighted assistance My > question is, how to install brltty using apt-get on Woody standard Disks? Youshould be fine by typing apt-get install brltty in the command-line,logged in as root. -- CYa

Re: gnome and debian + gnopernicus

2003-10-06 Thread Mario Lang
Attila Konietzka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone get gnome + gnopernicus up and running on debian testing? Last time I checked, it did work, yes. > I aks because i want to try it out, after the brand new garnome system gave > me errors after errors when installing and no hints to fix it

Re: gnome and debian + gnopernicus

2003-10-06 Thread Mario Lang
Attila Konietzka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:45:46PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> Attila Konietzka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > # apt-get install gnome-core gnopernicus, >> > >> > but still it isn&#

Re: gnome and debian + gnopernicus

2003-10-07 Thread Mario Lang
Attila Konietzka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:34:08PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> From your description it seems you did not set the $DISPLAY variable >> correctly. Normal consoles do not have the DISPLAY variable set, since >> they a

Bug#215039: at-spi: Gnopernicus >0.3.4 segfaults on window-switch event

2003-10-09 Thread Mario Lang
Package: at-spi Version: 1.1.9-1 Severity: important I am unable to upload any newer version than Gnopernicus 0.3.4 to the archives (0.7.1 is current), since every later version I tried segfaults with the same backtrace. According to the backtrace, it seems to be an at-spi problem. I have alread

Precompiled 2.4.22-speakup packages

2003-10-11 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Since there has been no real progress on the speakup front recently, I decided to do an update of the kernel-image-speakup-i386 packages. Find a preliminary version of the upcoming 2.4.22-speakup kernel packages at http://people.debian.org/~mlang

Re: Precompiled 2.4.22-speakup packages

2003-10-12 Thread Mario Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Mattice) writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:09:23AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> Since there has been no real progress on the speakup front recently, I >> decided to do an update of the kernel-image-speakup-i386 packages. >> >> Find a prelimin

Re: Gnome 2 + Gnopernicus + Gnome-speech

2003-10-16 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can you tell me what is the best approach today to install gnome 2 from > debian packages with Gnopernicus 0.7.1 and Gnome-speech 0.2.7 ? > Is it really possible or may we absolutely build Gnome 2 from scratch ? > I ask because it seems the newest Gnopernicus r

Re: Gnome 2 + Gnopernicus + Gnome-speech

2003-10-16 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Smedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:35, Mario Lang wrote: >> It currently looks like as if we >> will release Debian Sarge with at-spi 1.1.9 and gnopernicus 0.3.4. > > This is going to be

Re: Can't find the library . . .

2003-10-26 Thread Mario Lang
Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:58, Nolan J. Darilek wrote: >> I've been attempting to build the latest CVS gnopernicus, as I've >> upgraded and downgraded numerous debian packages and my old compile no >> longer works. I'm receiving the following error, t

Gnopernicus Status Update

2003-10-29 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. This mail is for those of you who have asked me in private about the status of new a Gnopernicus version in Unstable. I am happy to inform you that the strange segfault crash of Gnopernicus >0.7 is gone, and I have started to upload necessary packages for Gnopernicus 0.7.1. We need a new gn

Re: Gnopernicus Status Update

2003-10-29 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. What speech servers will be in the Debian gnome-speech package? This is an as yet unsolved license problem. Currently, gnome-speech comes with support for Festival, and that is it. We can not include support for FreeTTS or DecTalk(R) currently. gnome

Re: Installation question

2003-10-30 Thread Mario Lang
"Tom Masterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please do not ignore this question. I admint I'm a bit of a newbie but we > all were once so... > > I am trying to set up a cdrom install which comes up with brltty running. > I think I have figured out what to do to do this but I can't figure > out h

New Debian-Installer Floppies with BRLTTY

2003-10-31 Thread Mario Lang
Hi people. I've built a new floppy set based on the new Debian-Installer for Sarge with BRLTTY included. I've just installed a fresh new system with them, so they appear to work. If you have some spare machine to test this on, I'd appreciate your comments. You can find the image files at: http:

Re: New Debian-Installer Floppies with BRLTTY

2003-10-31 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just an additionnal question : You need these two floppies in order > to be able to install sarge with the new debian-installer but do you > need something else ? I think you need sarge CD isos but something > else ? You will need network access to some ftp or h

Re: New Debian-Installer Floppies with BRLTTY

2003-10-31 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for the http or ftp mirror I suppose I must indicate the url > during the install process ? are defaults urls proposed or if no which > urls may I indicate to the installer ? You can select a http or ftp server by choosing a country and one of the servers known

Re: New Debian-Installer Floppies with BRLTTY

2003-11-06 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > today I try to install my new Debian sarge with the two floppies you > mentionned below. for your info I test that with an Handytec BrailleTop > and it works well for BRLTTY. So the passing of the boot option and the initialisation of the display worked for you?

Re: emacspeak 18.0 in Debian

2003-11-11 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does someone know why emacspeak 18.0 has not been integrated in Debian ? > Even in unstable release we find the 17 release. Why ? an idea ? I have submitted a wishlist bug against the emacspeak package to upgrade to 18.0 on 26th August 2003 (Bug#207393). So far

Re: Problem to activate braille support with Gnopernicus

2003-11-12 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed gnome 2.4 on my Debian box with gnopernicus and BRLTTY > .deb packages. After, I initialised the following keys using gconftool-2 > : > > gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnopernicus/srcore/br_active true > > gconftool-2 --type string --set /a

Re: Problem to activate braille support with Gnopernicus

2003-11-13 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I have installed gnome 2.4 on my Debian box with gnopernicus and BRLTTY >>> .deb packages. After, I initialised the following keys using gconftool-2 >>> : >>> >>> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnopernicus/srcore/br_active true >>> >>> gconftool-2 --type s

Speakup and BRLTTY enabled Debian-Installer flavour

2003-11-15 Thread Mario Lang
Hi gang. The previously announced BRLTTY enabled Debian-Installer flavour (access) has been extended and now also includes a Linux kernel patched with the Speakup extension. Where to get: Currently, floppy images with speakup and BRLTTY support can be found at http://people.debian.org/~mlang/inst

Re: Speakup and BRLTTY enabled Debian-Installer flavour

2003-11-15 Thread Mario Lang
Well, I read through this post two times before I sent it, still I did overlook this blunder: Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > An exmple: > > For a LiteTalk Hardware speech Synthesizer connected to serial > port 2 (/dev/ttyS1) and a TSI PowerBraille 40 braille

Re: Java support in Debian gnopernicus package

2003-11-25 Thread Mario Lang
The Java Access Bridge is not available in Debian, so if Gnopernius explicitly checks for the availability of that at build time, the Debian package does certainly not include this. However, I wonder why it would need build time support. I always thought everything was supposed to go through at-spi

Re: Mozilla 1.5 and accessibility support

2003-11-25 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. In Mozilla 1.4 Debian Packages accessibility was already enabled. I manually verified that back then. When I tried Mozilla 1.5 with gnopernicus (all from Debian packaging), I was at least partially able to read a web site I browsed to. It is far from really being useful, but Gnopernicus was

Speakup and BRLTTY enabled Debian-Installer flavours

2003-12-26 Thread Mario Lang
, Mario Lang Graz University of Technology mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department Computing http://www.ZID.TUGraz.at/lang/ Phone: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6897 // /_Apparently a teacher has been arrested in the UK in

Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?

2004-10-27 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. As you probably all know, BRLTTY currently has debconf support files so that a nice dialog pops up upon install and asks the user which type of display he has and where that is connected to (device file). The necessary code behind it is a bit complicated, and needs a heavy update for 3.5/3.6,

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

2004-10-27 Thread Mario Lang
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, thought I'd give this another try. Mario, if you're there, would > you please see if you can explain this to me. Sorry for the late answer. > Thanks. > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > -- Forwa

Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?

2004-10-27 Thread Mario Lang
Koichi INOUE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am an ALVA 380 user. > > Is it somewhat related to brltty in Debian Installer? Actually, no. In Debian-Installer, a prebaseconfig script which runs shortly before the first reboot during the installation *should* actually install brltty into the t

Re: Typo? in BRLTTY support file

2004-10-28 Thread Mario Lang
Koichi INOUE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I looked at sources of BRLTTY package. > It looks complicated to write everything in sh world. > > I found possibly typo in debian/brltty-udeb.prebaseconfig > in the following line: > > --- from line 70: > file="/proc/cmdline" > if [ -f $flie ]; then

Re: Considering to drop debconf support from BRLTTY?

2004-10-28 Thread Mario Lang
Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The preferred behaviour would be: > > 1. Run auto-detection. If this is successful write the results to the >configuration file, or perhaps instead it should proceed to step 2 >with detection results as the default. It is questionable if one-time

Re: Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

2004-01-04 Thread Mario Lang
All the display related settings are saved in the file /etc/brltty.conf. Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered > a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but > indicates "No braille support"

Re: debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

2004-01-05 Thread Mario Lang
Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well thsoe seem to work nicely. This is good to hear! > I personally like the change in interface to a readline-style. The readline-style interface is the so-called cdebconf-text module. It was originally only written for testing purposes, but I fig

Bug#228353: software-dtk source changes

2004-01-18 Thread Mario Lang
Package: emacspeak Version: 17.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, what changes did you need to make before you could compile the > source for the emacspeak DEQTalk server. In the C source file, you need to change "#include " to "#include " and in the

Re: Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

2004-02-10 Thread Mario Lang
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered > a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but > indicates "No braille support". the installation + configuration run > successfully : I choose Handytech for the bra

Re: Festival with Gnopernicus to quick

2004-03-02 Thread Mario Lang
Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ATM I test Gnopernicus with Festival for a visually impaired friend. > I use Debian testing on different machines but on each of them the festival > voices speak to quick. I think approx. twice as quick as normal. Just a wild guess, but is it possible that

Re: Festival with Gnopernicus to quick

2004-03-02 Thread Mario Lang
Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 11.51 schrieb Mario Lang: >> Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Salve Mario > >> > ATM I test Gnopernicus with Festival for a visually impaired friend. >> > I use Debian testi

Re: Festival with Gnopernicus to quick

2004-03-02 Thread Mario Lang
Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I think this is rather a common behavior because I've got here atm three >> > PCs (2 PCs and a laptop). One works (Debian woody and soundcard Creative >> > Audigy) and two doesn't work (Laptop: Debian sarge and soundcard i810 or >> > something - 2nd PC: D

Gnopernicus/gnome-speech for GNOME 2.6 in experimental

2004-04-26 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. As you probably know, the Debian GNOME team is currently working on uploading the GNOME 2.6 release to Debian. To ease transition, GNOME 2.6 packages currently only are uploaded to the experimental distribution. I've now finally uploaded gnome-speech and gnopernicus to experimental, with dep

gnome-speech: Ship the `test-speech' program with a binary package

2004-04-27 Thread Mario Lang
Package: gnome-speech Severity: wishlist Shaun Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not with the debian package it don't the `test-speech' program is actually only targeted for the source directory by upstream. It is not ment to be installed on the system directly. However, since many people s

Re: Text interface of d-i beta4

2004-05-02 Thread Mario Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > as you may know, debian-installer beta4 is out now. > The text interface has been deeply modified since beta3, but > there has been no feedback so far about its usability with > braille or speech devices. As we are near the final release, > it is time t

Re: gnome-speech with DECTalk

2004-05-05 Thread Mario Lang
Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some time ago you explained me what I have to do to work with an > DECTalk-enabled: > 1. apt-get source gnome-speech >This fetches the source package of gnome-speech, and unpacks it in the >current directory. You'll find a directory like gnome-spee

Re: gnome-speech with DECTalk

2004-05-05 Thread Mario Lang
Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: How do you use the console. I installed screader but at a first try it > only reads the command line itself and no command output (e.g. ls -> > directories). I am using BRLTTY with a braille display. Regarding speech-based screen readers for the con

BRLTTY and a flite module package?

2004-05-20 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Version 3.5 of BRLTTY will have a speech driver module for Festival Lite. This module links dynamically against the quite large (6MB or so) festival lite library. Now, I am pondering how to go about this new module. I basically see two approach: 1. Create a new binary package (for example, br

Gnopernicus and GNOME 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Mario Lang
0 May 2004 22:52:02 + Source: gnome-speech Binary: libgnome-speech3-dev libgnome-speech3 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:0.3.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: libgnome-speech

Re: test-speech in Debian

2004-06-13 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the Debian package for gnome-speech is a lib it doesn't include > the test-speech program included in the official gnome-speech tar ball. > This is a very useful program. I would like to have it in Debian. > Should I file a wish list bug No, you cou

Re: Speakup and BRLTTY enabled Debian-Installer flavours

2004-06-13 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. It appears that the speakup-image.img is no longer beeing built. I > found links for it on google from early January, but nothing since. The > links no longer worked. When I look at the download page for Debian > installer dated from Late May, all I

Tip Of The Day: module-assistant and cursor tracking

2004-06-16 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. I just played with module-assistant (a package to ease building of kernel module packages) the first time. By default, it uses dialog, which we already know does not provide any useable cursor tracking for us braille/speech reader people. However, there is a simple solution to get cursor tra

Re: Looking for experienced recommendations

2004-07-05 Thread Mario Lang
Elizabeth Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a sighted person and I'm working on setting up a system for my 14 > year old neice, Thalia, who is blind. She uses both qwerty key and > braille keyboards and a braille display (BrailleLite). > > I'm looking for comments from people with experie

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-16 Thread Mario Lang
"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I'm thinking of installing Linux once again. One of my primary > goals is being able to set up most access aids as quickly and > painlessly as possible in order to be able to really start learning a > Linux system myself. Without working acces

Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

2004-08-16 Thread Mario Lang
"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang wrote: >> I'm afraid that there is very little internationalized software >> speech support yet. > > It's not that serious but I'd like to read some e-mail and books in > Finnish

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