Re: [orca-list] a question about Braille

[covici ccs covici com]

Only strange thing I had to do in gentoo, was to compile gdm to look for
screens starting at tty12 which is a configure option.

Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu> wrote:

> 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
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