[BRLTTY] Recommended live distribution

[David Renström]

Hi S.M.,

I've now downloaded and tested the 32-bit version of GRML from May 2012 and so far it seems to work quite beautifully. I get braille (with the brltty boot option) on my VarioPro 64 and also the sound card is detected and used properly. I especially like the beep which indicates the boot prompt... :)

Ironically, the only thing which has failed me so far is the hwinfo command. It prints a lot of stuff but before I get time to read anything, all of it disappears and instead an error message is shown telling me that Dbus/libhal failed. Seems to be a bug.

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,
/David R.

-----Original Message-----
From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf Of S. Massy
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:19 PM
To: brltty at mielke.cc
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Recommended live distribution

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:25:52PM +0200, David Renstr m wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good Linux live distribution, i.e.
> that can be booted from a CD/DVD or a USB flash drive, which has 
> braille support (BRLTTY) available from start. I used to use Knoppix 
> and enter "knoppix blind brltty=ht,usb:" at boot time, but this 
> doesn't work in the newer versions. If someone has got any idea how I 
> can continue to use Knoppix, I would of course be grateful too.
I've had good luck with grml: http://www.grml.org

YMMV

Cheers,
S.M.
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