Linux livecd with brailleaccess.

william windels william.windels at pandora.be
Sun Feb 5 19:32:45 UTC 2006


yes , you can install grml from www.grml.org.
just start after booting with the following parameters:
grml brltty-type,port,braille-table
enter
just wait a while
best regards
William
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Holmberg" <anders at pipkrokodil.se>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Linux livecd with brailleaccess.


> Hello!
> Are there documentations on ho  run these distros?
> And how about the login promts and such things?
> Are there any dits i can install on any hard drive?
> WHich is stable.
> /Anders.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christian Schoepplein" <chris at schoeppi.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux livecd with brailleaccess.
>
>
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>> On Sa, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:39:52 +0100, william windels wrote:
>>>Yes, there is: knoppix.
>>>dowload on _w_w_w_._k_n_o_p_p_i_x_._n_e_t.
>>>To start the brailledisplay  after starting cd, type
>>>brltty=type,port,brailletable
>>>(enter)
>>>The keyboard is by default querty I think.
>>>
>>>But, you can not install this live-cd on the hd.
>>>I mean: you can but it's very unstable.
>>
>> Knoppix uses debian unstable.
>>
>>>I think you can do this with kanotix (also debian-based) but this cd has 
>>>no
>>>braille-support :(
>>
>> Another cool distro with braille support is GRML. It is a Live CD with
>> many textbased tools, grafical envirorments aren't on this distro. IMHO
>> brltty is used for braille support.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Schoepp
>>
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