Re: problems installing lenny on dell laptop

[Thorny]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:48:55 -0700, Don Raikes posted:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display
> without a problem onto my gateway desktop system.
> 
> However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600
> laptop, it is not recognizing the usb connection to either my external
> keyboard or braille display until well into the install process.
> 
> Since the usb is not recognized, the installer does not give me a choice
> of a text-only install it only has the graphhical install.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> BTW: I had created a livecd from my lenny install on the desktop and it
> boots up fine with usb support at the appropriate point on the laptop.
> 
> The remastersys-installer doesn't allow me to select the laptop's hard
> drive so I can't install from there.

On my D600 there is a BIOS option for USB emulation (USB keyboard, USB
mouse and USB floppy drive), on the BIOS setup which is reached by
pressing F2 while the laptop boots, it's on page 4 of the setup.

It might be worth trying to change that option and see if it makes a
difference. I can't say because I've never tried the D600 with a USB
keyboard, I installed with the laptop keyboard.



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Re: problems installing lenny on dell laptop

[Daniel Dalton]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:48:55AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display 
> without a problem onto my gateway desktop system.

So am I :)

>  However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600
> laptop, it is not recognizing the usb connection to either my external
> keyboard or braille display until well into the install process.

Well an usb display by all reports should be detected automatically. If
you just somehow at the prompt invoke brltty like:
brltty=display,device,table
display being your two letter braille driver, and device being the port
its on eg. ttyUSB, or whatever. I forget what usb is called now; I use a
usb to serial device.
table I think is optional, but your braille table en_us or en_uk are
good starting ones. This should force the installer to use text mode! So
perhaps you'll need a ps2 keyboard to initially type this???

Daniel.


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