On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Adrian van Bloois wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > > [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2017/02/28 at 08:26 -0600] > > > > >While the version of brltty that Centos provides works, it lacks a couple > > >things. > > > > And, if you're using a laptop on battery power, 4.5 is much less friendly > > to > > that battery than 5 is. > > > > >First, I can't, for anything, get any sound out of it for alert > > >tunes. After looking at its dependencies, I noticed it didn't have alsa > > >libs > > >listed. Could it be that the Centos-distributed version (brltty-4.5-13.el7) > > >doesn't have any sound support other than the beeper device? > > > > Do ldd on the brltty executable to see which libraries it's using. > > > > >So, I tried the brltty-5.4 RPM available for download from brltty.com. I > > >really wanted to move to Brltty V5, anyway. I run it at home on a Gentoo > > >system, and I like a number of the changes including the new button > > >mappings > > >for my PowerBraille 80. Sadly, it's looking for, among other things, libicu > > >4.9. Centos 7 comes with 5.0. Sigh. > > > > Best, really, to build brltty for yourself. That way, you can specifically > > configure it for the system you have. > > > > >Next stop, the source RPM. Try to build my own. I attempt to add the many > > >dependencies required to build the RPM: 23 that I didn't yet have. However, > > >one can't be met: gcc-java. It's not available in RHEL and Centos 7 that I > > >can see. > > > > You can configure with --disable-java-bindings. That shouldn't cause any > > problems. Again, though, doing that may require a non-RPM build. Get the > > tarball - not the rpm - and build from that. > > > > >Can anyone point me to a binary RPM of Brltty for Centos 7 that has ALSA > > >support for PCM alert tunes? Or perhaps the Centos one does and I'm just > > >not > > >configuring something right? I tried many times this week to make it work. > > > > I myself am not familiar with CentOS 7. Maybe someone else on this list is. > yes, I'm running CentOS 7.3 since a couple of months. > As Dave suggests, use the tarball!!! > Attached is my brltty.service which differs from the one from the rpm or > the one from the tarball. One thing more, remove the -t my from the start line in brltty.service
> My configure script is like this: > ./configure \ > --prefix=/usr/local \ > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --datadir=//usr/local/share \ > --localstatedir=/var \ > --disable-java-bindings \ > --disable-tcl-bindings \ > --disable-lisp-bindings \ > --disable-ocaml-bindings \ > --with-braille-driver=YOURDISPLAYDRIVER \ > --with-curses=ncurses \ > --with-screen-driver=lx > > > > >Alternatively, can anyone make suggestions for building the srpm? What > > >changes might I need to make to the configure command-line to not need > > >gcc-java, > > > > As mentioned above: Build from the tarball, and configure with > > --disable-java-bindings. > > > > >and would might I lose if I left that out? > > > > Only the functinality of anything that relies on the Java bindings for > > BrlAPI. > > I don't think there are any major public apps that do. > > > > >Would that hurt any of the Gnome/Orca brlapi integration? > > > > No. They use the Python bindings. > > > > -- > > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of > > God. > > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > > EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > -- > Adri P. van Bloois > > > "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between > success and failure." > Edsger W. Dijkstra > _______________________________________________ > 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Adri P. van Bloois "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W. Dijkstra _______________________________________________ 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
