would be nice to know what exactly the startup scripts should do here ;) 

up to 9.3: 
 
in YaST2.start: 
  /usr/sbin/hwinfo --special=braille 
 
-> writes braille info to install.inf 
 
in YaST: 
 
if [ \( ! "$update" \) -a "$Braille" ] ; then 
   log "found a braille display" 
   sed -e "s#brlname=.*#brlname=$Braille#" -e 
"s#brlport=.*#brlport=$Brailledevice#" /etc/suse-blinux.conf 
>/tmp/suse-blinux.conf 
   mv -f /tmp/suse-blinux.conf /etc 
   /etc/init.d/suse-blinux start 
   xsrv= 
fi 
 
-> start braille daemon & switch to textmode 
 

Hm, looks a bit messed up, hope it's ok. ;-) 

ok, this code exists as well in the current startup scripts. 
 
if [ "$Braille" = 1 ];then 
    log "\tMedium Braille (ncurses) has been selected" 
    SELECTED_MEDIUM="NCURSES" 
fi 
 
followed by 
 
function prepare_for_ncurses () { 
    #============================================= 
    # Create Braile config if not update mode 
    #--------------------------------------------- 
    if [ $INST_MODE = "normal" ];then 
    if [ ! -z "$Braille" ];then 
        log "Braille config needed, setting up braille display" 
        sed -e "s#brlname=.*#brlname=$Braille#" \ 
            -e "s#brlport=.*#brlport=$Brailledevice#" /etc/suse-blinux.conf \ 
        >/tmp/suse-blinux.conf 
        mv -f /tmp/suse-blinux.conf /etc 
        /etc/init.d/suse-blinux start 
    fi 
    fi 
} 
 
is pretty much the same as in the old source. So the question is what 
is going wrong. I cannot reproduce this here and need your help 

The log file 
 
 /var/log/YaST2/y2start.log 
 
is a good starting point 
 
Thanks 

To test, boot with (or set as environment): 
 
hwprobe=+10b00:s5003:80:/dev/ttyS0 

Created attachment 48781 [details]
y2start log

Tested with beta4+. Nothing about braille in log.

Hmm, install.inf has no "Braile" variable set. All the code depends 
on $Braille which is exported as variable from the data in linuxrc. 
The y2start.log contains this environment at the beginning and there is 
no such variable   
 
?  

There _is_ a Braille entry in install.inf (I see it). Maybe you parse 
install.inf before running 'hwinfo --special=braille'? 

import_install_inf is one of the first calls from the scripts I never call 
any hwinfo program in the scripts. If you have a look at the log you will 
find all settings from install.inf 
 
maybe the format is somewhat different ? Can you send me the install.inf 
you are seeing ? 

Created attachment 48799 [details]
install.inf

Look at g70.

ssh -l root g70 
ssh: connect to host g70 port 22: Connection refused 

sorry, too late :-) 

ok found the bug. Problem was that Braille was checked against the 
value (1) but it is set to something like "ht20". I fixed the check to 
look for ! -z "$Braille" 
 
YaST now starts in ncurses and the blinux daemon is tried to start 
but that doesn't work on my system. I assume this is because I have 
no braille display connected 
 
fixed