Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu versus Open Solaris

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I was thinking a service using SMF would be the way for starting BRLTTY 
correctly, but I gave up in a confusion of complexity. I suppose a short 
term fix would be to have a script to check whether BRLTTY is running 
and if not then start it and add this script to session start up 
(problem being it relies on gnome starting and I imagine that BRLTTY 
could be used on a text console of Solaris without needing gnome starting).

Michael Whapples

On 02/12/08 15:14, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi:
>
> >    How complex would be to rebuild Opensolaris so The OSS drivers and 
> > opensound could be included with Live CD if Sound blaster live will 
> > be automatically detected during booting up?
>
> I believe this should hopefully get into the April 2009 release, but 
> I'm not 100% sure.
>
> >    What about trying to include brltty to Opensolaris, so users could 
> > use braille display if their sound cart will not be properly 
> > detected? I Am aware, that this equipped Braille display is not 
> > cheap, but I think, that it would be much more easy for programmers 
> > to include brltty to Opensolaris, than to include Opensound and OSs 
> > audio subsystem to support Sound blaster Live.
>
> BrlTTY is included with OpenSolaris, and it does work with Orca on 
> OpenSolaris.  There are still some issues I would like to work out, 
> though:
>
> 1) How to automatically start BrlTTY and possibly autodetect the 
> braille device.  I'm not sure how to do this at the moment (probably 
> an smf service of some sort), and would welcome an effort from the 
> community to do this.
>
> 2) Virtual consoles are kind of in OpenSolaris, but I think it takes 
> some tweaking to make them happen.  While virtual consoles are not 
> needed for BrlTTY to work or for Orca to access BrlTTY, switching to a 
> virtual console is often a nice means to debug things on the desktop.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Will