Hi Cheryl, welcome to Gentoo. I'm not familiar with the brltty gentoo package, but the great thing about gentoo is it's flexibility in regards to package handling.
This relates to your situation in that I believe you've found a case where the default gentoo package obviously does not work for your needs. As you have other distributions where brltty works, I'd suggest mirroring those installations in your gentoo system: 1. Download the brltty source from the brltty maintainer's site. 2. Configure, compile, and install per their recommendation. 3. Make appropriate changes to your kernel, as it appears that there are some based upon your original thread. 4. Do an "emerge -I ..." on brltty so Portage will think it is installed yet not try to rebuild it for each package. In this way you should be able to get brltty working on your system without gentoo interfering. The trick, obviously, will be getting the appropriate init.d && inittab entries to work whilst avoiding the standard gentoo things (i.e. building an init.d script based upon /sbin/runscript). Regarding recommendations from the brltty maintainer, I'd suggest following those as closely as possible. Gentoo merely provides a nice framework for custom built linux systems; it is not meant to be a prison like redhat or suse, etc. Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
