The Arch brltty package has a lot of dependencies including dbus and several x11 related packages.
I believe that if you install the default brltty package on Arch these days pacman will pull in a full blown GNOME desktop as well. Personally I don't care about GNOME and I only want to use the text console. There is a brltty-minimal package in AUR which do not depend on all these useless (in my opinion) packages. Download the brltty-minimal package from AUR and install it. If you're not familiar with AUR packages I highly recommend reading the Arch Wiki entry on AUR. In short you can't install AUR packages directly with pacman since AUR packages are not binaries. The aur package only includes a build script and by using a aur helper it downloads the source code, compiles it and generate a binary which can be installed using pacman. I haven't used Arch for quite some time now. I went back to good old Debian and I don't miss Arch at all. Debian (wheezy) provides both brltty and Speakup in the official install images which is simply awesome. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault Sent: 17. august 2012 00:13 To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty on arch linux? Cheryl Homiak, le Thu 16 Aug 2012 12:34:04 -0500, a écrit : > I just made the mistake of upgrading arch linux on my vmware fusion > installation, which I hadn't done for a while. I now can't run brltty. > Nothing happens on my display. The information I get is this: > > 2012-08-16@12:10:14.982 BRLTTY 4.3 rev 5477 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/] > 2012-08-16@12:10:14.990 Can't get dbus session bus: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported Unable to autolaunch a > dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 > > I found a bug on this but I haven't found a resolution to it. I'm just using > my braillelite 40 with arch linux in console, not trying to run orca. Is > there a fix for this? It's odd that it tries to connect to dbus, only the atspi2 driver should be doing that, but it's not supposed to be enabled by default. Did the arch maintainer use any particular configuration? I remember something like that, maybe it was Arch. Samuel _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
