Debian Installer feat. BRLTTY ----------------------------- Debian Installer natively supports BRLTTY since its beta 3 for Debian Etch, see official announcement at [1]. If your Braille display is connected by USB, simply press ENTER at syslinux prompt (at the very beginning of the installation process), your display should be autodetected. Otherwise, if either your display is connected by serial port or you want to set a particular Braille table, give the following line at syslinux prompt before pressing ENTER (you may be careful as the keyboard layout is qwerty at this step): install brltty=drv,dev,tbl "drv" stands for the BRLTTY code of your Braille display, "dev" stands for the device your Braille display is connected to (e.g. ttyS0, usb:, ...) and "tbl" stands for the code of the Braille table to be set. For example, this is the line that enables BRLTTY for a BAUM SuperVario 40 Braille display connected by USB with default Braille table: install brltty=bm,usb: Supported Braille displays and Braille tables are listed along with corresponding codes in the BRLTTY manual, see [2]. Details about installing Debian are available at [3]. Please also consider joining Debian Accessibility mailing list at [4]. Footnotes: [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2006/20060811 [2] http://mielke.cc/brltty/doc/Manual-BRLTTY/English/BRLTTY.html [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ -- Boris Daix <Boris.Daix@alysse.org> Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:10:15 +0200
