Bug#965026: grub-emu is unusable with orca nor BRLTTY

Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu at mailbox.org
Thu Jun 26 19:58:58 BST 2025


Hello everyone,
tried if I can reproduce this issue here and found it
shows up with a qemu VM without giving any vga device options.

I got following list where I could find the issue:

grub-emu (2.06-3~deb10u4, buster)       broken
grub-emu (2.06-3~deb11u6, bullseye)     broken
grub-emu (2.06-13+deb12u1, bookworm)    broken
grub-emu (2.12-8, trixie/testing)       working

In Trixie I could leave the application by 'c'onsole and 'halt'.
Maybe the change from sdl1 to sdl2 changed some internals in grub-emu.
Before it seems grub-emu did not even respond to any keyboard input.

Therefore is this bug still an issue?
As it looks like grub-emu no longer uses framebuffer,
does it work now with orca/brltty?

Kind regards,
Bernhard



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