Sorry, my mistake. I kept somehow thinking that there was a driver that need to be loaded into the kernel. I’m too used to thinking of a braille display as a native device that requires it’s own device driver. :-)
Best, J. R. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 8, 2020, at 17:08, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: > > hmmm, brltty is not part of the kernel ?? > >> On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:26:56 -0400, >> J. R. Westmoreland wrote: >> >> I currently have a RPi4B running gentoo linux image generated by Sakaki. I >> will probably have to rebuild the kernel to include brltty. It's been a >> while since I've attacked a linux project. I've been off doing things like >> Xcode and things Mac related. >> >> I'll keep everyone posted as to my progress. >> >> J. R. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kyle >> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 12:00 PM >> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Raspberry Pi >> >> I'm not sure about Gentoo, but I have successfully used it on ArchLinuxARM >> on both 32-bit and 64-bit ARM processors. I was considering looking at >> Gentoo on one of my computers, as all I use these days is 32-bit and 64-bit >> ARM, but I wanted to try it on 64-bit devices, one of which is a Raspberry >> Pi 3B+, and find that the Gentoo version for these devices is fairly old and >> still considered to be experimental. I do know that brltty has no problem >> compiling for either architecture, so if you can get Gentoo working, you can >> certainly use brltty. >> >> ~Kyle >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general >> information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >> For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty >> > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici wb2una > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
