Debian on Raspberry Pi 4B

2024-02-21 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I know this is off-topic for this list, but does someone here have experience with Debian on Raspberry Pi 4B? If so, please reply off-list. The wiki page seems a bit out-dated and confusing. Regards, Martin

Installing non-free speech synths

2023-12-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Where can I find info about installing non-free synthesizers, such as Eloquence and Vocalizer? The wiki doesn’t say anything about it, and I can’t find any info in e.g. /usr/share/doc/speech-dispatcher-voxin. Regards, Martin.

Re: Problems with cursor routing and copy/paste in BRLTTY

2023-10-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, > On 29 Sep 2023, at 23:41, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Linux indeed broke TIOCSTI for brltty. The fix is under way, it'll get > into Debian 12's backport eventually (linux 6.4.8). Do you know when it’s ready? If it take som time, how can I revert to the release kernel, without hav

Problems with cursor routing and copy/paste in BRLTTY

2023-09-29 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I’m running Debian 12, with backports enabled. For some time, cursor routing and copy/paste in BRLTTY has not worked. When I press a cursor routing key, or try to paste something from the BRLTTY buffer, I get the following message: “Linux character injection (TIOSCSTI) is disabled on this

Re: How to Install Basic Debian CLI System with Networking and screen reader

2023-05-28 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello David, When I’m installing a Debian system without a GUI, I start the installer with medium priority, and skip the step “Select and install software”. That way, a basic Debian system is installed, and if you configured networking during the process, it will be available on the installed sy

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
I’m tired of this discussion of what works best and all that. Could you please continue this on e.g the blinux mailing list? This list is for debian-related accessibility discussions, while the blinux list is more for general discussions like this “Iggdrasil”. Martin

Re: Loss of all sound after updating to latest stable

2021-10-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, Did you get anything usefull out of the amixer output I posted regarding the loss of sound? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: Loss of all sound after updating to latest stable

2021-10-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, idim@heidi:~$ amixer -c 0 scontents Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 74 Mono: Playback 54 [73%] [-20.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

Re: Loss of all sound after updating to latest stable

2021-10-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, idim@heidi:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfc00 irq 31 idim@heidi:~$ sudo dmesg|grep firmware [3.484848] psmouse serio1: trackpoint: IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3 [5.892826] platform

Loss of all sound after updating to latest stable

2021-10-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, After updating to the latest Debian Stable, I’ve no sound at all. Either the sound card nor the pc speaker. Is there something I can look for in a log? The volume setting in alsamixer is set to 100%. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: Debian Newbie

2021-07-13 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Devin, I think the best starting point is the accessibility wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility It contains lot of general accessibility tips and tricks. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: Kenwood tm-d710ge

2019-09-23 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Keith, You can find the manual here: https://www.kenwood.com/i/products/info/amateur/pdf/TM-D710A_E_GA_GE_IDM.pdf The panel is self-explanatory. 73 de LB7YE

Experienced qemu-users

2019-06-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, If there are users on this list with experience setting up/using qemu in terminal, could you please contact me off-list? The questions I have are not related to accessibility. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: Apollo hardware synth and speakup

2018-01-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 01/03/2018 02:46 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It looks like brltty is tampering with the ttyUSB port. Could you > perhaps try without brltty running, or with in /etc/brltty.conf the > braille-device set to the exact usb:n so it doesn't try to tamper > with the apollo device? How c

Apollo hardware synth and speakup

2018-01-02 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello and happy new year! A friend of mine has a good old Apollo hardware speech synth, which we want up and running using speakup. It's attached via a USb -> serial adapter, along with a Handy Tech braille display, which is attached directly to the PC via USB. Speakup doesn't start. idim@pea

Re: guide for installing debian using the command line

2017-04-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
> On 9 Apr 2017, at 02:34, Jude DaShiell wrote: > No network connection found with stock debian image means you haven't got a > floppy in the computer with a directory called firmware holding the correct > driver for your network card. The debian firmware installer has a selection > of firmwa

Re: guide for installing debian using the command line

2017-04-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
> On 9 Apr 2017, at 00:33, Amir-Trend Plus wrote: > > Hi, > i need to install debian to a pc that has no internet connection. last > time i tried, it requires me to setup the connection during the > install and since no connection was found, it failed. Can i skip that > screen and setup my conne

Re: new user starting up, where can i download the accessible installer for debian and the quick start guide?

2017-03-31 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, which images aren’t accessible? Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: new user starting up, where can i download the accessible installer for debian and the quick start guide?

2017-03-27 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, There is no spesifick accessible installer. However, the official installer is, out of the box. What kind of accessibility do you need? Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Using speakup with a serial-connected speech synth

2017-01-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello and happy new year! A friend of mine has a good old Apollo speech synth, which we’ll like to use with speakup. It’s connected to a modern laptop via an usb to serial adapter. I’ve included the “speakup_apollo” module in the initrd. Now, how to get speakup running? The various readme files i

Re: tips for a new qemu user

2016-11-28 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
I forgot to mention that the 'qemu' package is installed. Martin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: tips for a new qemu user

2016-11-28 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 11/28/2016 10:59 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > I've not yet read the wiki page, first of all I'd like to know more > about what are the problems and questions regarding Quemu. As I stated in my previous message regarding this, I thaught building a VM with qemu involved a huge am

Re: tips for a new qemu user

2016-11-27 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
On 11/27/2016 01:03 PM, mattias wrote: > what? have debian team removed the --curses switch from qemu? Maintainers doesn't remove anything from binaries. > why use qemu anyway? Because it's accessible. > use vmware instead or virtualbox Then, tell me how to get VMWare, or/and how to make VBox

Re: tips for a new qemu user

2016-11-27 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 11/27/2016 01:11 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Why making it off-list? As far as I understand, a qemu VM is built using a huge bunch of options, and I thaught such a discussion was a bit off topic according to accessibility. Do I missunderstand something? I mean, is a VM actually built

tips for a new qemu user

2016-11-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I know this is off-topic for this list, but I also know that people here has used/are using qemu in an accessible way. For me, building/using a VM looks like a huge mess. If someone would like to share some tips, please reply off-list. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: accessible install problem

2016-11-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
On 11/27/2016 12:01 AM, dhof...@att.net wrote: > Yes it is part of the main board. The USB Soundcard is recognized by > Vinux booted from a USB flash drive. That doesn't help much if it's not by the Debian Installer. However, it seems like this problem can be solved in Stretch, according to what

Re: accessible install problem

2016-11-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 11/26/2016 06:58 PM, dhof...@att.net wrote: > I have a 64 bit Dell PC with a sound card that is not working, so I am using > a USB sound card instead. I want to install Debian using the accessible text > installation process, but the net install ISO evidently is trying to use the >

Re: Freeze of the tty

2016-11-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 11/16/2016 09:06 PM, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > And have you configured a keyboard-table in /etc/brltty.conf? No, I'm not using the display as a keyboard. I missed that part of your first message, sorry. Have you tried disabling this feature of brltty? Martin signature.asc Descripti

Re: Freeze of the tty

2016-11-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 11/15/2016 11:42 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > Does anybody use the TTY full-time and has a similar issue? I'm using tty full-time with a H T BS 40 braille display connected via usb, on an up-to-date Strech install, and I don't have this issue. Regards, Martin signature.asc Descri

Fwd: Bug#645334: support for manipulating the command line directly

2016-11-06 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Odd Martin Baanrud > Subject: Bug#645334: support for manipulating the command line directly > Date: 7 November 2016 at 06:48:58 GMT+1 > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <645...@bugs.debian.org> > Resent-From: Odd Martin Baanrud

Bug#645334: support for manipulating the command line directly

2016-11-06 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: virt-manager Version: 1:1.4.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #645334 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, If this will enable sending options directly to qemu, it really should be integrated, if possible,without to much work. This way, it will be possible for users of refreshabl

Re: Problems with MATE control center in Jessie

2016-10-23 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 10/23/2016 05:03 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > These 4 buttons are just there to highlight the corresponding group in > the icons. I.e. hey only have a visual effect. Continue tabbing until > reaching icons: Appearance, etc., which do open a window. Ahh, I understand. Not the best vie

Re: dos emulator

2016-10-22 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
On 10/22/2016 09:22 PM, mattias jonsson wrote: > dosemu dont exist on arm And the dosbox emulator doesn't work with orca, unless it can do with a script or something. I guess the only solution for you is to install FreeDOS or something simular in a virtual machine. Martin signature.asc Descri

Re: Virt-manager and accesibility

2016-10-19 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 10/17/2016 01:50 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > With qemu, if you run a system with -curses and the guest is not GUI, > you may access to it directly from the host (eg. Linux in CLI, Freddos). But can this be done through virt-manager? So far I don't see a way to pass additional op

Re: Virt-manager and accesibility

2016-10-19 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, On 10/17/2016 01:49 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I guess you can ask virt-manager to provide a sound board to the guest, > or pass-through a USB port to the guest to connect a braille device. Yes, virt-manager can add a virtual sound board. However, it seems like the virtual Baum braille

Problems with MATE control center in Jessie

2016-10-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, In the MATE control center provided in Jessie, nothing happends when I press the buttons. I see them all. Personal, hardware, etc. It seems like the program doesn't recognise the key presses. Any ideas? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Accessing Orca preferences

2016-10-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Is there an alternative way to access the Orca preferences then Orca-Key+Space? I'm using MATE. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Where's the orca key?

2016-10-17 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I’m running Debian Stretch on a Lenovo Thinkpad R500, and I’m totally unable to find the Orca key. I know it should be rather caps lock or insert, but none of them work. I installed Jessie on another computer some time ago, and on that computer, caps lock serves as the Orca key. Any idea

Re: mate

2016-10-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
> On 17 Oct 2016, at 03:25, mattias wrote: > > if i install mate via apt in debian jessie > > you can launch orca but after it you cant do anything.. > > how to solve? I guess you’ll find some usefull tips here: http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility Martin signature.asc Description: Message

Re: No braille in mate user session

2016-10-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Regarding the accessibility issue I had in MATE, I finally fixed it. I guessed the issue had something to do with a messed up file or something. So I did a new fresh install with accessibility enabled, and created a new user. That solved the problem. So I copied the content of the new $home

Virt-manager and accesibility

2016-10-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I’ve plaied with virt-manager (A tool to manage QEMU/KVM VM’s.). The program itself is usable with Orca. However, I wonder how one can make a VM accessible once started? According to the accessibility wiki, it’s possible to get some accessibility when starting a machine directly with QEMU,

TEst, please ignore

2016-08-29 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
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No braille in mate user session

2016-07-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I did a fresh install of Jessie yesterday. Braille works at the mate login screen, but when I’m loged in, it stops working. Speech however works just fine. I loged out, and braille worked again, but now speech was lost. I configured orca from a console using ‘orca -t’ and enabled braille. B

No braille in mate user session

2016-07-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I did a fresh install of Jessie yesterday. Braille works at the mate login screen, but when I’m loged in, it stops working. Speech however works just fine. I loged out, and braille worked again, but now speech was lost. I configured orca from a console using ‘orca -t’ and enabled braille. B

No braille in mate user session

2016-07-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I did a fresh install of Jessie yesterday. Braille works at the mate login screen, but when I’m loged in, it stops working. Speech however works just fine. I loged out, and braille worked again, but now speech was lost. I configured orca from a console using ‘orca -t’ and enabled braille. B

No braille in mate user session

2016-07-26 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I did a fresh install of Jessie yesterday. Braille works at the mate login screen, but when I’m loged in, it stops working. Speech however works just fine. I loged out, and braille worked again, but now speech was lost. I configured orca from a console using ‘orca -t’ and enabled braille. B

No braille in mate user session

2016-07-25 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I did a fresh install of Jessie yesterday. Braille works at the mate login screen, but when I’m loged in, it stops working. Speech however works just fine. I loged out, and braille worked again, but now speech was lost. I configured orca from a console using ‘orca -t’ and enabled braille. B

Re: Linux-Intelligent-OCR-Solution (lios)

2015-04-03 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, What if this package could be maintained by the accessibility team? Then the list receives info about uploads etc. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2015-03-01 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.14.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #706548 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again, When lightdm starts at boot, I have both braille and speech output. However, when logging out, and the login screen re-appears, I only get braille output. - -- System Info

Bug#706544: gnome-orca: No more braille output after restarting orca

2015-03-01 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.14.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #706544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, What this bug report describes is actually the problem I told about in Bug #779404. At the login screen, braille is working, but once loged in, braile output is missing. And xbrla

Bug#779404: brltty: Misses key presses from the display

2015-02-28 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, So far, it only seems to happen in the text console. I just rebooted the actual machine due to upgrade of some packages (including som mate stoff), and now I don’t get braille output in the graphical session at all, except for a line saying “lightdm-gtk-greeter”. Only speech works.

Bug#779404: brltty: Misses key presses from the display

2015-02-27 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: brltty Version: 5.2~20141018-4 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm using a Handy Tech Braille Star 40 connected via usb. Often, when I press a button on the display, the decided action isn't performed. However, when I press the button again, the dec

VirtualBox and accessebility

2014-12-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I was surpriced to discover that VirtualBox, with some tricks, is now usable with orca. Someone who has any experience? How is the accessebility when it comes to the virtual machines? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Bug#771152: BrlAPI client display not refreshed when device comes back online.

2014-12-07 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, Thanks for good explenation of the different bug “levels”. I understand that the subjected bug might not be serious enough for a fix to be included in the upcomming Jessie release, but could a fix end up in the backports archive? In the meantime, is there a workaround? Is it enoug

Re: lightdm

2014-12-07 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, A few days ago, I did a fresh install of Jessie with the Mate desktop environment. For the first time since I started using Jessie, I now have an accessible desktop. However, as it was stated some time ago, orca seems to freeze during use. But after a random number of key presses, it “wak

Bug#771152: BrlAPI client display not refreshed when device comes back online.

2014-12-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: brltty Version: 5.2~20141018-2 Followup-For: Bug #771152 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I can comfirm this. When I go to a text console from mate, the braille display doesn't get refreshed when I return to the GUI. I thinks this is serious enough to get the upstrea

Re: Installing Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD with braille

2014-11-28 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, Thanks for the info regarding kFreeBSD and missing braille support. Perhaps this should be informed about in the accessibility wiki, pointing out that it doesn’t effect login using ssh/telnet? All the best, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMa

Installing Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD with braille

2014-11-24 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I want to try Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD, so I downloaded the CD-1 iso. However, when I boot the CD, press tab, and enter the needed parameters, nothing happens when I press enter to boot. I’ve also noticed that the grub beep is missing. Is there something different with the kFreeBSD installer,

Re: Desktop accessibility

2014-09-11 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Øyvind, The Jessie installer has xfce as the Debian desktop, which isn’t accessible by default, because gnome-orca doesn’t get installed with the xfce task. There has been a discussion on this in the past, and for some strange reason, the xfce team wouldn’t have orca installed with the xfc

Re: gnome-menus inaccessible in Wheezy

2014-08-02 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
On 02 Aug 2014, at 03:20, Jason White wrote: > It's so out of date that bug fixes are extremely unlikely. If you were running > GNOME 3.12 from Sid you would be in a much better position, and bug reports > would have a much greater chance of being addressed upstream. Ok, dist-upgraded the machin

gnome-menus inaccessible in Wheezy

2014-08-01 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, After a fresh installation of Debian 7, the menus in gnome are totally inaccessible with orca. I don’t find any documentation on how to fix this. Any ideas? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Orca disabled after dist-upgrade

2014-04-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I’ve upgraded a machine from Squeeze to Wheezy, and now Orca doesn’t start with gdm. I’ve not loged in via gdm yet. How is accessibility restored when gdm is started, and how about my user? Is it anything I need to do? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenP

Re: Using Orca in KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Luke, Thanks for good explenation about qt/kde and accessibility. I guess it’s best to stick with gnome/GTK at this point. I’m looking forward to see how accessibility is going to be handled in qt5. Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: Using Orca in KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Paul, On 06 Apr 2014, at 10:10, Paul Gevers wrote: > - Why did you install qt-at-spi (I would assume all necessary > dependencies are pulled in automatically when you install orca (package > gnome-orca) I installed the qt-at-spi package, because it didn’t get installed durring the system

Using Orca in KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I want to test Orca in KDE. I’ve installed the qt-at-spi package. The documentation states that a few variables need to be set, but not where they should be set. In which file should they go? Regards, Martin signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: brltty Version: 4.4-10+deb7u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I did a fresh install of Debian 7.4, in text mode. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#696967: gnome-orca: Conflict between orca and pavucontrol

2012-12-29 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: gnome-orca Version: 2.30.2-2 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When the program "pavucontrol" is started on a machine where orca is enabled as a screen reader, orca becomes very slow, and the speech goes silent. The GUI session may even crash or lock up,

Some orca questions

2011-03-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, As I understand, orca 2.91 is now available in Debian Unstable. Is there a way I can install it on Squeeze without messing up the package system? Is it safer to build it from source with "apt-get source -b gnome-orca", or can I just fetch the package manualy from a sid mirror and install it

Re: pgp in evolution

2011-03-02 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hi Kenny, Thanks for the tip, but I've finally found the trick in Evolution. To get the key info for a pgp signature you don't have the public key for, navigate to the pgp section of the message, then arrow left to the speech says "Panel". When you're there, use orca-modifyer + 9 to move the mous

Re: Could orca package be updated?

2011-03-01 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, At 19:58 19.02.2011, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: We will probably package orca 2.91 / 3.0 within the next two months, unless something goes wrong (I'm not too aware of the at-spi2 transition and whether it will affect orca 3.0). Is there a chance that this updated package will be u

pgp in evolution

2011-02-25 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I resceive several pgp-signed messages in evolution. I have not signed many of the actual keys yet. When I navigate a signed message , I can see a line that says: "Signatur exists, but needs publick key". But I'm totaly unable to find out how I can get the key ID. A friend says that one sho

Some issues with gnome-orca and Evolution

2011-02-23 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I've now installed Debian Squeeze on my laptop. I write this message in Evolution, with orca running, and it works good. But, I've discoverd som issues. I resceive several messages which is signed with pgp. In the bottom of the message body in those message, I see something like: "Signatur

Re: /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the machine without monitor

2011-02-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, Now X starts without problems! Even orca was started, with braille support. I'm looking forward to check this out! Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

/var/log/Xorg.0.log from the machine without monitor

2011-02-16 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32.28-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian Current Operating System: Linux kristin 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 ro

Re: gdm3 issues

2011-02-15 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, At 23:31 13.02.2011, you wrote: You may also want to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and put this in it to disable the use of any actual low-level driver: Section "Device" Identifier "noscreendevice" Driver "dummy" EndSection Tried that now, without

Re: gdm3 issues

2011-02-13 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, At 15:45 12.02.2011, you wrote: It looks like Xorg having troubles with starting. Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It's 12 Kb in size. Should I post it anyway? BTW, do you have a physical screen attached to your desktop? Nope. I don't have place for it on my desk. :-)

gdm3 issues

2011-02-11 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Maybe this is not the right place for my question, but I take the chance, since it is braille related. I've installed Debian Squeeze on my desktop machine. I selected "Desktop environment" in Tasksel. I used BRLTTY durring install. The install process went just fine, but after reboot, m

Bug#598906: Ask if brltty should start at boot after install?

2010-10-02 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: brltty Version: 4.2-4 Severity: wishlist When running DI with brltty or while reconfiguring the brltty package with dpkg-reconfigure, what if one could be asked if it should start on boot or not? For example, if one only needs it for installing Debian on a machine, and not require it to

Bug#576226: gnome-orca: Orca doesn't start at all

2010-04-01 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: gnome-orca Version: 2.22.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I'm using a Braillex EL80 braille display. I've just tried to install gnome-orca. When I've loged into gdm, I pressed Alt+F2, and then typed "orca". The braille display changed text for a very short time

Qemu

2009-04-17 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I'm very interested in trying the Qemu emulator. Is the emulated machines accessible out of the box with braille? Also, does anyone know a howto for qemu? The bunch of possible options are confusing me, so a littel howto with some examples would be nice. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCR

Accessible file manager

2009-04-17 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Does anyone know a flexible file manager which is accessible with braille? Something like the Midnight Commander. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Is the rescue image accessible?

2009-04-11 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Is the rescue image provided with Lenny accessible with braille? If so, how does one start it? Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
At 19:55 10.03.2009, Gaijin wrote: Are you trying to login as "root", because that doesn't work in gnome, to my absolute hatred for people who prevent me from doing what I want in Linux. No, I've tried to log in as a regular user. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessib

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
At 07:25 10.03.2009, Jason White wrote: aptitude show gnome Not nessesary to do that as root. It will be a version of Gnome 2.22. Yes, it is 2.22.2.5, or more exactly, 1:2.22.2.5. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-10 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
At 13:50 10.03.2009, Willie Walker wrote: Ah...this is old stuff. GNOME 2.26 is coming out next week. If Debian is able to provide packages to let you upgrade, I'd suggest doing it. I'm not sure that the new version of Gnome will be included in the newly released version, but it's of course

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
At 00:36 10.03.2009, Willie Walker wrote: Which operating system and version are you using? Which version of GNOME are you using ("gnome-about --version")? What was the message you saw from Orca? I'm using Debian Lenny. Not sure which version of Gnome it uses, and the "gnome-version" comma

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
At 02:47 10.03.2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > First, I tried via Gnome. > I thaught I was logged in, but when I hit Alt+F2 to get to the Gnome > Run dialog, Gnome restarts at some point. Uh, that's odd, there's a bug here, it shouldn't happen... Ok. Can I do something to point out this bug?

Re: Missing braille tables in the Lenny NetBoot image

2009-03-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, At 10:26 09.03.2009, you wrote: > I had braille access via the netboot image, just with wrong braille table. Yes, I know, and that's normal, but didn't you say that you didn't have braille after the reboot? Yes, but I guessed that was because I had /usr on a separate partition,

Re: Problems with Orca

2009-03-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, I've now tried to run Orca in several ways. First, I tried via Gnome. I thaught I was logged in, but when I hit Alt+F2 to get to the Gnome Run dialog, Gnome restarts at some point. I'm unable to figure out exactly when. Is there something I must do before I can start Orca? Then,

Re: Missing braille durring boot

2009-03-09 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Mario, At 12:32 09.03.2009, you wrote: > Well, accessibility shouldn't depend on how a user like to partition a > hard drive. You have a point here of course. That's not ment as complains to your work for getting Debian accessible, it's just some issues I mean it's important to point

Re: Missing braille durring boot

2009-03-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Mario, At 18:23 05.03.2009, you wrote: Change to /etc/rcS.d and invoke the following command: "mv S25brltty S38brltty" Done that, and BRLTTY now starts durring boot. These days, I'd rather recommend having /usr on the root partition, I don't agree. Havving separate partitions for di

Re: Missing braille tables in the Lenny NetBoot image

2009-03-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Samuel, At 18:10 08.03.2009, you wrote: Did you have network access during the installation? Due to space reasons, it was decided not to include brltty on the netboot image itself, the rationale being that the netboot image is supposed to be used when you have network connection during i

Problems with Orca

2009-03-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, Now that BRLTTY starts durring boot on my Lenny system, I want access to Gnome via Orca. I installed Gnome via Tasksel, then I installed the gnome-orca package, and tried to run orca from a console to get to the Orca text-based setup. And that gave me a bunch of errors: /var/lib/pytho

Re: Missing braille durring boot

2009-03-05 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Mario, At 14:54 05.03.2009, you wrote: As you indicated in another mail, /etc/rcS.d/S25brltty is also present, right? That's correct. Where does it point to, i.e. what does "readlink /etc/rcS.d/S25brltty" say? It points to "../init.d/brltty". 2. Alternatively, you can edit /etc/de

Re: Missing braille durring boot

2009-03-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Jason, At 03:11 05.03.2009, you wrote: If you have a file called /etc/default/brltty, edit it to make sure that BRLTTY is started during boot. I don't have this file on my Lenny system. For reference, I checked the Etch install on my laptop, with the same result. And on my laptop, BRLTT

Missing braille durring boot

2009-03-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I've now installed Lenny on my desktop computer, with a Braillex EL-80 attached to the serial port. Everything seems to work fine, but one thing doesn't. BRLTTY doesn't start durring boot. But when I hear the beep from Gnome, I can go to a console with ctrl-alt-FX, log in as root, and s

Re: TR: tasksel + gdm and accessibility issues for the d-i

2009-02-20 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Aldo, I like your suggestion! As it is now, I guess we need to install Orca after the inisial install? If we could get a "Desktop accessibility" entry into Tasksel, all the needs for blind persons are in place. And, as you say, we already have the ability to install the intire system by u

Loading braille from an installation CD

2009-02-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello again, Since the installation CD's now contain a boot menu, how is it possible to get to a boot prompt and load the installer the old way, and then enable BRLTTY? Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Missing braille tables in the Lenny NetBoot image

2009-02-18 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Mario, and thanks for the updated info about the Norwegian braille table. I've used both a Handy Tech Braille Star with a USB connection, and a Braillex EL-80 with a serial connection. BRLTTY didn't start in both cases. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@li

Missing braille tables in the Lenny NetBoot image

2009-02-17 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello, I've installed Debian Lenny with the NetBoot image. I got braille support durring the installation, but I didn't got the specified braille table. I've specified the "no-p" table. I used the same parameters as in Etch, brltty=driver,port,table Am I missing something new? Also, the braill

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