On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:41:58AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > I'm sorry, I didn't know about that and I didn't see it announced on > debian-accessibility. Still, I think that's modules, not an actual > kernel image with the Speakup core built-in. I will look before saying Its modules, but you don't need to build a kernel yourself, use m-a, so yeah, to get messages from boot up to power off you will probably need to install a custom kernel. But a great start. >>> One thing Daniel didn't mention is that the Lenny installer should >>> have accessible images with Braille and Speakup support, which Etch >>> will never officially have. >>> >> >> ?!?! >> >> Etch _does_ have braille already. >> >> > Again, I'm sorry. I don't use Braille and I thought Braille was somehow > dropped for Etch. Maybe I was confused with Sarge which had Speakup > support. I read the Etch release notes and don't remember seeing a All installers I have used: etch and lenny both had braille. Sorry, for not making that clear. >> As for Lenny, I've put a preview mini-ISO of what the installer will be >> on >> >> http://brl.thefreecat.org/mini.iso >> >> > Thank you! This would be very good to have. I intend to download it > and use it the next time I do an install. I should check it out too. > anyway. With that said, I have an idea which I'm thinking about but it > would have more to do with Speakup itself than Debian. Erm, this is the speakup list, so what is it? > complaining and I was responding to him and Daniel. I'm personally very > happy with Debian, more than any other Linux distro. I would like to I personally believe debian is the most accessible distro and it is my favourite, so I'm not complaining, but happy to improve it even more! Cheers, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <d.dalton at iinet.net.au>
