[BRLTTY] Problem with brltty in ppc debian after installation

[Cheryl Homiak]

I was finally able to run the install; each time a file failed to download 
or I was given the message about the kernel modules not being found, I moved 
on to another mirror and finally everything downloaded and the installation 
appears to be successful. I say "appears" because I can't read anything. 
While the brltty in the install was fixed, the brltty installed before 
booting into the system is still a brltty with the problem that was fixed in 
the installer. So linux appears to start, brltty starts, and I get the 
unreadable characters; then when Xwindows starts I get "screen not in text 
mode" and when I change over to a text console, of course I get those 
characters again. I hoped I could ssh in and fix the problem by installing 
the necessary programs to get the new version via subversion, but ssh either 
isn't turned on or the package isn't yet installed; it's pretty hard to try 
to run apt-get when you can't read the screen. I tried going back to the 
install cd and typing "rescue" instead of install; I got the same 
preliminaries, however, as for an install; I was able to execute a shell but 
since i'd gotten the error again about the kernel modules, /target wasn't 
mounted; maybe I can try it again later today and work around with the 
mirrors like I did yesterday; I really would prefer not to have to install 
again if I can find some other way to fix this. Any suggestions would be 
welcomed!!! However, the bottom line is: the brltty package that is 
installed to be used after installation has to be fixed too or anybody 
trying to use brlltty in debian with ppc architecture is going to be unable 
to work with the installation after reboot.

I do appreciate the work that has been done on this and I was thrilled to be 
able at least to get the install done; I do now have a dual boot on my Mac 
Mini that works, but I'd like to be able to work with it now that it's 
installed.




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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."