Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:38:56 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > About the dark theme, it would probably be useful to make the text > > lightwhite (CGA color 0x15), not only white/grey (CGA color 0x7)? > > Please submit a p

Make syslinux beep?

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, It is a bit hard for blind people to know exactly when they can type boot options for the installer. It would be helpful that syslinux beeps when it is ready to get input. What do people think about it? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sébastien Hinderer, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 17:34:03 +0200, a écrit : > In case people do not want an unconditional beep, would it be possible > to configure syslinux so that keeping a well known combination of key > pressed while booting would make it beep when it's ready to accept > options. Unfortun

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mario Lang, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 23:40:38 +0200, a écrit : > The activation problem is exactly what this thread is about. BTW, for the long term, I was also thinking about unconditional preseeding of debconf from any USB stick which is insertd. That would permit us to have a webpage which a

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gaijin, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 13:31:34 -0700, a écrit : > Personally, I'd like to see a configuration option in the > installation, like a tasksel option that would reconfigure Debian for > the visually impared, running through the system and setting up what it > can. That is already discussed

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Fri 20 Jun 2008 20:27:17 +1000, a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:40:14PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Unfortunately a lot of BIOSes won't like that ; they will consider that > > the keyboard is broken. > > Even if the key is pressed af

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Fri 20 Jun 2008 22:27:08 +0200, a écrit : > On Thursday 19 June 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:38:56 +0200, a écrit : > > > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > About the dark theme, it would

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-06-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Sat 31 May 2008 18:59:32 +0200, a écrit : > On Saturday 31 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > What is the status of the kernel support and the l-m-e packaging? > > > > Attached is the patch to l-m-e which I have used. > > OK. But my ques

Bug#488493: rootskel: Expose the theme to the text frontend as well

2008-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: rootskel Severity: minor Tags: patch The attached patch exposes the theme to the text frontend, so that it can apply it when run e.g. on the linux or bterm console. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldst

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: cdebconf Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello, The current dark theme of newt does not use bright colors, and sometimes uses background colors for no real use, leading to less readability. The attached patch makes a few fixes. The current text frontend does not have a dark theme, this adds

Re: Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Mon 30 Jun 2008 00:13:12 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 29 June 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 > > > block 488494 with 486933 > > > > Bug#486933: bogl: shou

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-07-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Mon 14 Jul 2008 20:04:48 +0200, a écrit : > On Saturday 28 June 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Attached are the patches against rootskel and finish-install which I > > could test with success (provided the patch from bug #479227 is applied > > to

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 12:58:02 +0200, a écrit : > On Monday 30 June 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Oops, I should have explained indeed: I just meant that we won't get > > bright colors (e.g. real white) in bterm until bogl gets fixed, i.e. > > even if the c

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 18:17:16 +0200, a écrit : > > I don't know if another color would fit better, anybody on the list > > would have an idea? > > Are there any colors that are bad because they "look" like grey to some > colorblind users? I've no idea, that's why I ask for people on deb

Re: Software speech in Debian installer

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
(Cc-ing debian-boot as well) Zachary Kline, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 10:21:27 -0700, a écrit : > I was wondering about any possibility of putting software speech of some > kind into the Debian installer along with Speakup. I realize it isn't a > trivial undertaking, Just to copy-paste what I've said

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 18:17:16 +0200, a écrit : > Are there any colors that are bad because they "look" like grey to some > colorblind users? If not, I think I'd personally prefer dark red over > dark blue with dark grey. For people on the list to test it, I've put a second mini.iso on h

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, There was no answer from debian-boot on this request: Samuel Thibault, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:08:32 +0100, a écrit : > It is a bit hard for blind people to know exactly when they can type > boot options for the installer. It would be helpful that syslinux beeps > when it is rea

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 07:15:38 +0200, a écrit : > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:08:32 +0100, a écrit : > > > It is a bit hard for blind people to know exactly when they can type > > > boot options for

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 20:22:52 +1000, a écrit : > But, the beep would solve this. I know it wouldn't help on a laptop, but > still. Why wouldn't it help on a laptop? If there is no internal speaker maybe you could use headphone? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 12:32:39 +0200, a écrit : > I could see myself agreeing if you can come up with an implementation that > only includes the beep for official builds (i.e. the addition of the beep > is triggered by something in debian/rules). That should be feasible, so I guess that'

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 13:50:45 +0200, a écrit : > On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Well, I don't think there is any architecture which shouldn't be > > supported, except s390 on which speakup doesn't even compile. As for > >

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jérémy Bobbio, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 18:57:10 +0200, a écrit : > > For a version of the installer with full speech synthesis support, a > > custom image would probably be the _only_ option. > > One of the other things that we have discussed (but not it full length) > with Samuel after his talk durin

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Rafalski, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 17:08:07 +0200, a écrit : > >I've put an image doing this on > >http://brl.thefreecat.org/mini.iso > >And an image using white on blue as you suggested on > >http://brl.thefreecat.org/mini-blue.iso > > > Thank you for the images. Both look good. It is ok to use

Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Fri 18 Jul 2008 08:05:17 +0200, a écrit : > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ok, so for coherency we should probably go with the black on gray. > > Here is a patch that fixes the progression bar too. > > Committed in SVN. Than

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 20:33:36 -0300, a écrit : > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (No need to CC me > > > > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> I do agree it is annoying, but as Sebastien said, it's just about &g

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stephen Frazier, le Sat 19 Jul 2008 23:11:36 -0500, a écrit : > I know that other people with a different set up may not like the > beeps. So, why not make it an option. An option at debian-installer build time you mean? If there was a way to pass an option "dont beep" to an already existing boot

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 12 Aug 2008 00:10:26 +0100, a écrit : > Still no feedback on this? (I mean feedback from debian-boot, I got some from debian-accessibility, the feature was greatly appreciated). Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Still no feedback on this? Samuel Thibault, le Sun 20 Jul 2008 15:47:18 +0100, a écrit : > Otavio Salvador, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 20:33:36 -0300, a écrit : > > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > >

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Mon 11 Aug 2008 22:06:50 -0300, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Samuel Thibault, le Tue 12 Aug 2008 00:10:26 +0100, a écrit : > >> Still no feedback on this? > > > > (I mean feedback from debian-boot, I got

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 12 Aug 2008 10:29:23 +0200, a écrit : > On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Here is a patch. I didn't know how I should detect the kind of build, > > I just made it look at the udebs source. > > I don't think it's smart to u

[PATCHv2] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is an corrected patch Samuel Index: build/config/x86.cfg === --- build/config/x86.cfg(révision 54981) +++ build/config/x86.cfg(copie de travail) @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ outfile=

Re: [PATCHv2] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 00:51:29 +0200, a écrit : > On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Here is an corrected patch > > Looks fine to me. > > Only wonder if it would not make more sense to rename the variable to > BOOT_BEEP or BEEP_ON_BOOT or S

Re: [PATCHv2] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Per Andersson, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 01:31:37 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Here is an corrected patch > > > > Looks fine to me. > > S

Re: [PATCHv2] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 00:54:15 +0100, a écrit : > Per Andersson, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 01:31:37 +0200, a écrit : > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >

[PATCHv3] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 02:05:45 +0200, a écrit : > Better to just use 0/1 as values and only test for '= 1' (or test for > set/unset, not sure what is more common). At least DEBUG uses y/n, so I have done the same in the attached fixed patch. Samuel Index: build/config/x86.cfg ===

Re: [PATCHv3] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 01:39:31 +0100, a écrit : > Frans Pop, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 02:05:45 +0200, a écrit : > > Better to just use 0/1 as values and only test for '= 1' (or test for > > set/unset, not sure what is more common). > > At least DEBUG uses

Re: [PATCHv3] Make syslinux beep

2008-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Wed 20 Aug 2008 15:40:09 -0300, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Samuel Thibault, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 01:39:31 +0100, a écrit : > >> Frans Pop, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 02:05:45 +0200, a écrit : > >> > Better to just use

Re: r55173 - in trunk/installer: build build/config debian

2008-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ok, never mind, lunar fixed it in a much better (and actually debian-installer style) way, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: r55173 - in trunk/installer: build build/config debian

2008-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sat 23 Aug 2008 09:19:06 +0200, a écrit : > On Saturday 23 August 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Author: sthibaul-guest > > Date: Sat Aug 23 00:22:05 2008 > > New Revision: 55173 > > > > Log: > > * Optionally add a beep to the x86 syslinu

Bug#403820: debian-installer-utils: user-params shouldn't pass brltty option

2006-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer-utils Version: 1.41 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, user-params passes options given to the installer kernel so that grub has them too. However, in the case of the brltty option, this shouldn't be done, because the brltty-udeb package scripts already pass these options

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Sat 13 Jan 2007 13:10:25 -0800, a écrit : > "Potentially leading to random breakage" doesn't really justify a critical > severity when there are a limited number of packages making use of busybox > (and busybox sort in particular). Does this bug actually break d-i, and if > so h

Bug#406912: tasksel-data: Should add numlockx to desktop

2007-01-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#406912: tasksel-data: Should add numlockx to desktop

2007-01-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Miroslav Kure, le Mon 15 Jan 2007 17:38:22 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:56:14AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > I'd hence suggest to add the numlockx package to the desktop task. > > Think about the poor laptop users who will have to turn it

Bug#406912: tasksel-data: Should add numlockx to desktop

2007-01-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Mon 15 Jan 2007 23:19:03 -0500, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > But there's a laptop task, isn't there a way to have it somehow > > "conflict" with numlockx? > > You think the laptop task is installed on all laptops? I'm su

Bug#406912: tasksel-data: Should add numlockx to desktop

2007-01-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Tue 16 Jan 2007 10:18:59 -0500, a écrit : > I still don't understand why most people will want to configure their > computer to use something different from the bios default. If I want > numlock on, I set it in the bios, then it's always on, even during early > bootup. A program that

Bug#406912: tasksel-data: Should add numlockx to desktop

2007-01-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Tue 16 Jan 2007 11:26:01 -0500, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > The problem is that both Linux and the X server _clear_ numlock, > > whatever the BIOS configuration. > > Eh, that certianly didn't used to be true on x86 hardware. I've bee

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit : > During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I > attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works > for Sun on Accessibility and Speech. > > Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Attilio Fiandrotti, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 13:43:15 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit : > > > >>During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I > >>attended in Extremadura last wee

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Attilio Fiandrotti, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 14:47:43 +0100, a écrit : > >>I'd like also to point out that the graphical installer is pure GTK+, no > >>GNOME components are present inthe instaler: would ORCA still apply in > >>such an environment? > > > > > >Orca peeks information from GTK+ widgets via

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Mario Lang, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 14:23:31 +0100, a écrit : > Willy, are you still willing to help the speakup project to do the final > cleaning up so that mainline submission could happen? I wouldn't say "final": the way speakup access serial ports is to be completely rethought. The current w

Bug#277322: discover1-data: usb-uhci (kernel 2.4) is uhci-hcd in kernel 2.6

2004-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Host Controller 80867602usb uhci-hcd82372FB PIIX5 USB Regards, Samuel Thibault -- Package-specific info: lspci: :00:00.0 0600: 8086:3580 (rev 02) :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02) :00:00.1 0880: 8086:3584 (rev 02) :00:00.1 Sy

Bug#277481: Installation report

2004-10-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
really went well: even issues like USB CD-ROM drive and NTFS resizing have been addressed like a charm :D Really good progress since last time I installed a debian (it was potato at that time, never reinstalled since, just upgraded ;) ) Regards, Samuel Thibault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Perrier, le Tue 02 May 2006 19:59:54 +0200, a écrit : > brltty integration > -- > Unofficial images have been built by Samuel Thibault but we don't have > much news. Brltty 3.7.2-3 should enter testing on Thursday. Then I will submit a corrected patc

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Tue 02 May 2006 21:50:39 +0200, a écrit : > Christian Perrier, le Tue 02 May 2006 19:59:54 +0200, a écrit : > > brltty integration > > -- > > Unofficial images have been built by Samuel Thibault but we don't have > > much

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Tue 09 May 2006 21:28:27 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Tue 02 May 2006 21:50:39 +0200, a écrit : > > Christian Perrier, le Tue 02 May 2006 19:59:54 +0200, a écrit : > > > brltty integration > > > -- > > > Unoffic

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sat 13 May 2006 09:30:07 +0200, a écrit : > On Saturday 13 May 2006 08:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Grmbl. Now that this available, I realize that brltty and gnopernicus > > must go into testing _together_, and gnopernicus waits for gnutls13 > > (which ha

Bug#367068: debian-installer: qemu support for cdrom images

2006-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20060304 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, Here is a patch for supporting CD-ROM images in qemu targets. Index: build/Makefile === --- build/Makefile (révision 37265) +++ build/Makefile

Bug#355851: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 355851 + patch thanks Geert Stappers, le Sat 13 May 2006 13:08:31 +0200, a écrit : > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:14:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frans Pop, le Sat 13 May 2006 09:30:07 +0200, a écrit : > > > On Saturday 13 May 2006 08:33, Samuel Thibault wrote:

Bug#370172: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: yes/no questions through checkbox aren't understandable

2006-06-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
l') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of filename comple

Bug#370172: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: yes/no questions through checkbox aren't understandable

2006-06-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Sat 03 Jun 2006 23:20:05 -0400, a écrit : > Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > >Write the changes to disks? > > > > > >[ ] Write the changes to disks? > > > > > >A simple correction for now could be to just not repeat the question: > > > > > >Write the changes to disks? > > > > > >[ ] Yes.

Bug#371167: (no subject)

2006-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT This is actually an install report for two machines with exactly the same configuration, but I'm submitting only one report. Debian-installer-version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso, dated 2006-03-14, fetched from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage

Bug#371167: Acknowledgement ((no subject))

2006-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, I forgot to add: in the partitionner, partition sizes are expressed in "GB". But a french person might not understand that, "Go" should be used instead. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#373650: kbd-chooser: bootkbd option makes installer hangs, has to press enter

2006-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 1.27 Severity: normal Hi, I tried to use the bootkbd option for preselecting the keyboard type, but it just hangs and requires enter to be pressed. - at the syslinux prompt, I type install bootkbd=fr-latin9 - the kernel boots up, udev starts, the frame buffer is set

Beta3 and brltty

2006-08-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Just a note: when releasing Beta3, please Cc debian-accessibility, and add a note somewhere in the mail that this is the first release which integrates brltty (with auto-detection of USB devices). (I'll probably be on vacation when this is released, that's why I won't be able to do it myself)

Re: Etch Beta 3 bug: BRLTTY not installed

2006-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Could someone please add the following to the errata list? BrlTTY doesn't automatically get installed Even if BrlTTY gets started if needed during installation (thanks to autodetection or manual setting), it isn't automatically installed on the target system. That's because of orderin

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2006-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
reopen 373704 thanks Version: 1:1.1.3-2 Hi, It doesn't seem to be fixed: $ sort -k5 -t/ -n /usr/lib/finish-install.d/99reboot /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/50brltty ^D /usr/lib/finish-install.d/99reboot /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/50brltty While it would be expected to see 50brltty coming before 99reb

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2006-08-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geert Stappers, le Thu 24 Aug 2006 09:46:54 +0200, a écrit : > > It doesn't seem to be fixed: > > > > $ sort -k5 -t/ -n > ^^ > > /usr/lib/finish-install.d/99reboot > > /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/50brltty > > ^D > > /usr/lib/finish-install.d/99reboot > > /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/50br

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Perrier, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 06:39:41 +0200, a écrit : > I'm personnally not completely sure about the status of this work, so > I prefer leaving others to answer. The script part is integrated, what is left is just to add the kernel modules to the initrd, the question was "which

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:38:21 +0200, a écrit : > I would suggest to only add speakup to the graphical installer images. That would be better than nothing, as that includes the complete network installer (not the businesscard). > I would also seriously suggest to limit speakup to x86 and

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:38:21 +0200, a écrit : > I would suggest to only add speakup to the graphical installer images. > Those are big already and already have a higher memory requirement. An > extra increase there is a lot less harmful than for the "regular" images. > > I would also s

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 13:59:22 +0200, a écrit : > > So we could commit this for now? > > You should add amd64 as well. Ah, right. Samuel Index: build/boot/x86/f8.txt === --- build/boot/x86/f8.txt (révision 55726) +++

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jérémy Bobbio, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 17:14:34 +0200, a écrit : > This would make this option appear in all images, even those where > speakup is not available, wouldn't it? > > f8.txt should probably be amended in f8.txt.withgtk… Right, here is an updated patch Samuel Index: build/boot/x86/f8.txt.

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 11 Sep 2008 21:24:34 +0200, a écrit : > I've done a quick test with the dummy speakup driver for i386/mini.iso and > it seems to work fine. Ok, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

f8 speakup documentation

2008-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, In f8.txt, one can read Use Speakup (graphical install only)speakup.synth=driver That is however misleading: what people understand is that they have to boot the gui installer, which is wrong (since speakup can only read the text console). Something like the attached patch would be n

Re: f8 speakup documentation

2008-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Sat 20 Sep 2008 20:30:30 +0200, a écrit : > I'm sorry, but that text is much too verbose and takes up way too much of > the available space on that screen. Well, I actually agree. > As the option in the syslinux menu is titled "Graphical install" > and that is exactly what

Re: plans concerning console-setup for squeeze?

2008-09-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Julien Cristau, le Wed 24 Sep 2008 12:29:07 +0200, a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 18:03:16 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > - having someone really caring about this *and* being skilled enough > > in those things to be able to commit self to conduct the transition > > *and* maintai

Bug#497676: Bug#396291: Bug#356055: loadlin: loadlin.exe cannot be built from source

2008-10-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Resending without the patch as it seems some mail servers don't like 160KB patches. Samuel Thibault, le Tue 07 Oct 2008 11:06:23 +0200, a écrit : > Peter commited upstream my yasm patch to support tasm syntax for > loadlin, here is a backport to the debian package (just

Re: Is speakup available in the GTK d-i from a usb-booted install?

2008-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Terry D. Cudney, le Tue 14 Oct 2008 19:07:01 -0400, a écrit : > In fact, the initial menu which one sees from a CD D-I boot does not > appear. Then that's the problem, since you thus couldn't set the speakup parameter. > I have tried mini.iso and debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from

Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

2008-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Simon Bienlein, le Fri 14 Nov 2008 17:12:24 +0100, a écrit : > I am blind myself and I suggested the paragraph "Install debian with a > Braille display" in Bug #500441. Thanks. I've been asking for volunteers a few times already, apparently nobody stepped up yet :/ There's a non-officia

uinput is needed for some braille devices

2008-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Some braille devices have a complete AT2 keyboard. Brltty properly simulates keypresses by passing them to a uinput device. However, that module is not available in the debian installer, and thus brltty falls back to simulating keypresses by passing ascii to the tty layer and thus having

Re: [BRLTTY] Framebuffer terminal emulators

2008-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Mon 01 Dec 2008 12:30:35 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mario Lang, le Mon 01 Dec 2008 11:12:02 +0100, a écrit : > >> Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > It was considered &quo

Re: Please test the uinput module for better support of some Braille devices

2008-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Quoting Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Could you please test the uinput module that is in the RC2 of the > Debian-Installer? I.e. could somebody who has a HandyTech device with an integrated complete keyboard download http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot

Re: Please test the uinput module for better support of some Braille devices

2008-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 01 Dec 2008 20:43:41 +0100, a écrit : > the braille integrated keyboard correctly behaves > according to the chosen keymap? I meant the complete keyboard integrated into the braille device, not a braille keyboard integrated into a braille device (the latter doesn&

Adding a module to initramfs-tools/modules?

2008-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, /lib/finish-install.d/05speakup automatically adds the speakup driver used for installation into /etc/modules so that the installed systems properly loads the module automatically for the user as soon as first reboot. However, in case / can not be mounted for some reason (e.g. disk rename)

Re: Adding a module to initramfs-tools/modules?

2008-12-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Tue 02 Dec 2008 23:40:29 +0100, a écrit : > On Monday 01 December 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > So I'm wondering: would it be ok to add the speakup module to > > initramfs-tools/modules and re-run update-initramfs from 05speakup? > > Re-running i

Re: Adding a module to initramfs-tools/modules?

2008-12-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 02 Dec 2008 23:58:05 +0100, a écrit : > > If it can be done, the best place to do this would be in a > > post-base-installer.d hook script. However, that may too early because at > > that point the kernel is not selected yet, so you may not be able t

Bug#508862: console-setup: There should be a way to load a second font

2008-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: console-setup Version: 1.28 Severity: normal Hello, With the kbd package it is possible to load several fonts so as to take benefit of the 512 possible different glyphs. For instance, blind people use this to load a braille font. This is not possible with console-setup. Samuel -- Sys

Bug#508862: console-setup: There should be a way to load a second font

2008-12-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 16 Dec 2008 10:28:15 +0200, a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:36:05AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > With the kbd package it is possible to load several fonts so as to take > > benefit of the 512 possible different glyphs. For instance,

[PATCH] Installation guide accessibility sections

2008-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a patch that adds to installation-guide two accessibility sections: in the supported hardware section, provide urls to lists of supported braille displays and speech syntheses, and in the boot section, document the boot parameters needed to enable accessibility features. Samuel Ind

[PATCH] typo in installation-guide/po/ja/using-d-i.po

2008-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
There is a typo in the japanese translation, here is a patch. Samuel Index: po/ja/using-d-i.po === --- po/ja/using-d-i.po (révision 56918) +++ po/ja/using-d-i.po (copie de travail) @@ -1974,7 +1974,7 @@ "故障したディスクの箇所に予備のディスクをセットできます

Bug#509372: typo in installation-guide/po/ja/using-d-i.po

2008-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: patch There is a typo in the japanese translation, here is a patch. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: am

Bug#509371: installation-guide: Installation guide accessibility sections

2008-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: patch Here is a patch that adds to installation-guide two accessibility sections: in the supported hardware section, provide urls to lists of supported braille displays and speech syntheses, and in the boot section, document the boot parameters ne

console-setup fetching data from xkb-data?

2009-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Is there a reason for console-data to contain a duplicate of the xkb-data content? Couldn't it just build-depend on xkb-data and fetch data from /usr/share/X11/xkb? That way, updating it would just need a binNMU. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: console-setup fetching data from xkb-data?

2009-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 24 Jan 2009 01:16:34 +0100, a écrit : > Is there a reason for console-data to contain a duplicate of the > xkb-data content? Ah, I've found http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/04/msg00925.html bummer. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: console-setup fetching data from xkb-data?

2009-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 24 Jan 2009 02:17:50 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Sat 24 Jan 2009 01:16:34 +0100, a écrit : > > Is there a reason for console-data to contain a duplicate of the > > xkb-data content? > > Ah, I've found > http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: console-setup fetching data from xkb-data?

2009-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ok, now I'm subscribed to debian-boot since people seem assume I am :) Christian Perrier wrote: > If I understand well, the strings used by console-setup for keymap > names are indeed used from an XML file...that's built by > xkeyboard-config, where these strings are translatable through PO > file

Re: Console-Setup switch

2009-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Oops, my previous mail was meant to be titled this way of course. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Console-Setup switch

2009-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 27 Jan 2009 00:46:42 +0100, a écrit : > +# Add some more ambiguity flags > +# Ideally these ambiguities should be expressed in base.xml instead > +$KeyboardNames::countries_keyboards{"BG"}->{"ambiguous"} = 1; > +$KeyboardNames::countries

Bug#513269: console-setup: toggle between latin and non-latin layout

2009-01-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goran Vulic, le Tue 27 Jan 2009 19:42:41 +0100, a écrit : > Toggle between latin and non-latin layout produce this: > 1. latin > 2. non-latin > 3. nothing (keys on 1st and 2nd level don't works, just works 3rd level > and the right win to toggle further ) > 4. non-latin > Array is repeat. I can't

Re: console-setup fetching data from xkb-data?

2009-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 24 Jan 2009 01:16:34 +0100, a écrit : > Is there a reason for console-data to contain a duplicate of the > xkb-data content? Couldn't it just build-depend on xkb-data and fetch > data from /usr/share/X11/xkb? That way, updating it would just need a > bin

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