[orca-list] a question about Braille

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Hi everyone,

So I'm trying to test Braille in openSUSE. At first, brltty wouldn't start 
because the systemd unit file was looking for brltty in the wrong place. 
I'm trying to get that fixed. Once I made a fixed package that had a good 
systemd unit file, I could start brltty, and it worked fine from the 
console--all I had to do was connect my Brailliant 40 to the USB port, and 
it seemed to automagically detect it. Then I tried to see if orca would 
communicate with brltty. At first at didn't--I figured out that it needed 
access to /etc/brlapi.key, and I needed to add my user to the brlapi 
group. After that, it still didn't work, only because I'd rigged my system 
to have more than six virtual consoles and something seems to assume that 
X is on console 7. Once I fixed all of that, it started to work.

Anyway, I needed to manually configure my system to start brltty, then 
manually add myself to the brlapi group, so I was curious whether those 
were things that people normally need to do if they want Braille / if 
other distributions somehow do something that makes it easier to enable.

Thanks,
-Mike