Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

[Dave Mielke <dave mielke cc>]

[quoted lines by Luke Yelavich on 2006/09/06 at 08:32 +1000]

>Yes, brltty does have an init script. However, the core Ubuntu 
>development team had a lot of concerns about BrlTTY, particularly to do 
>with memory usage, so until a better solution was devised, they simply 
>prevented the init script from running.

Do you know why they don't contact us when they have concerns?

What memory usage numbers are bothering them? I do know that brltty's memory
usage does look artificially high because of the way thread stacks are
allocated. Perhaps this is what's misleading them.

The default is to give a thread quite a large stack, even if very little of it
is used. If only a bit of it is used, however, only that bit of memory is
actually allocated so it isn't really a problem. In spite of that, though, we
did give the API a stacksize= parameter so that the size can be forcibly
reduced from the default.

>I have been thinking about this myself, and have a few ideas to make 
>this work better, which will very likely see the light of day in edgy+1.

What are they? Let's put them on the table and discuss tghem. I give the same
invitation to the Ubuntu people themselves.

>Henrik, it might be an idea to extend your howto to give info about how 
>to get Braille up and running with orca. I will discuss this with you 
>next time I see you on IRC.

I still maintain that a user shouldn't have to do it for himself. I don't think
a sighted user would settle for a system which made him have to find some
difficult-to-locate icon in order to turn his monitor on, especially after he
had to first log in while it's still off.

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