RE: [gentoo-accessibility] Brltty and systemd?

[Keith Wessel]

Hi, Michael,

No, haven't tried that route yet. That post says it'll work with Emacspeak,
but I prefer Speakup so I can have my screen reader right there in the
kernel at boot time.

Some recent posts from the Speakup list discuss some work-arounds to get a
USB to serial converter working on a 64-bit architecture which I'd need to
do. No big deal, I'm not afraid of a little kernel hacking.

And as I think about this more, if I built the right things in, it would
probably work from boot time.

I'll explore this route, thanks for the suggestion.

Still haven't rebooted into a system-based system, but I do have the
brltty.service file from ArchLinux in place. Other than modifying the path
to brltty from /usr/bin to /bin, what I have there is taken directly from
the link that Chris sent. I hope to try the big reboot later this week, and
I'll report back then.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Astrauskas [mailto:trevie@×××××.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 8:29 PM
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Brltty and systemd?

Keith,

     Have you tried a USB-to-serial converter?  A forum post at
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/2013/msg00582.html
<http://www.cs.vassar.edu/%7Epriestdo/emacspeak/2013/msg00582.html>
suggests it'll work for you.

--
  - Michael

On 2/3/2014 9:46 AM, Keith Wessel wrote:
> I haven't gotten into espeakup or software synths yet on my system.
> I'm still on mourning that my new system from a year ago doesn't have
> on-board serial ports and thus my good old Dectalk Express is now
> useless. I should do something with this sooner or later, though. For
> now, I just panic and go find my wife to read the screen whenever I
> can't get brltty going. ;)
>
> Thanks again,
> Keith