Hello,
After investigation and having reported the issue on the brltty mailing list
(thanks Dave Mielke), I remembered that in Slint brltty is started
during boot
up at a time where the root partition is mounted read only, to allow
checking
its file system.
For a yet unknown reason if using version 6.3 this prevents brltty to work
through orca and also leads to need a signal 9 to kill it.
As a workaround I have modified the script /etc/rc.dr/rc.S to start brltty
after the root partition has been re-mounted read write.
This seems to work here, I have checked using the options "-b tt -d
/dev/tty2":
I do get the text intended to be sent to the Braille display in the second
console (/dev/tty2).
To be 1O0% sure, please users or Braille + speech on the desktop test the
packages I have prepared, typing:
lftp -c "mirror https://slint.fr/repo/";
cd repo
su # to get root's privilege
upgradepkg --reinstall *txz
If your feedback confirms that this work as expected I will upload these
packages to the Slint repository.
I consider this as a workaround because starting brltty after the root file
system has been checked prevent folks using only Braille to see the error
message displayed in case the file system check failed: they will not
know why
they get no output on the Braille display in that case.
Cheers,
Didier
Le 16/02/2021 à 09:18, Pawel Loba a écrit :
Another report.
/etc/rc.d/rc.brltty stop command stops my Braille display, however, it
doesn't stop BRLTTY daemon since the next command /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty
start doesn't reactivate my Braille display and speech tells me that it
is because of BRLTTY daemon is running.
I killed this daemon by executing killall brltty -9 and then ran
/etc/rc.d/rc.brltty start and speech said that BRLTTY daemon is started
and I am getting my Braille display working bck in both console &
graphical envoronments from now on.
I tried my best Didier & hopefully it makes sense to you.
Thank you,
Pawel
On 2021-02-15 10:28 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote:
Hi,
type as root from the directory where the package has been downloaded:
upgradepkg brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.txz
Best regards,
Didier
Le 16/02/2021 à 00:58, Pawel Loba a écrit :
BRLTTY 6.3 package is here.
Please remind me the procedure to install this.
Thanks,
Pawel
On 2021-02-15 5:04 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have built a new package brltty-6.3.
I am having hard time checking if it works through Orca, not having
a Braille
display and not being able to read Braille.
It think I should get the output in a tty or terminal for X but was
not very
successful doing that. Anyone knows the good options to use?
Anyway I have uploaded a package here: https://slint.fr/repo/
The file is https://slint.fr/repo/brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.txz
Its md5 checksum is https://slint.fr/repo/brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.md5
Please test it in Mate before I upload it on the Slint repository.
Cheers,
Didier
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