Many people have reported seeing garbage characters (usually rendered as
question marks) when trying to install RedHat or Fedora with braille. I've
finally had a close look at the problem, and it turns out to be a bug in the
2.4 kernel's support for framebuffer consoles. Braille works properly when a
good old-fashioned VGA console is used. You can get a VGA console text install
by typing the following at the intaller's boot prompt:
text video=vc:13
Before any mystique develops around the mysterious number 13, I'd better
explain it. It simply means that all virtual consoles with numbers less than
that won't be framebuffer consoles. I picked 13 since there are 12 F keys.
Note that the problem of the cursor always being on the line below the selected
item in a list is still unresolved.
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