[BRLTTY] Debian and ttyUSB0

[Debee Norling]

I also am having a problem with a USB serial port but it isn't strictly a
problem with BRLTTY, in fact BRLTTY works just fine.

I'm new to Debian and previously, I always built BRLTTY myself, under
Slackware and on NetBSD.

Under Debian I simply dit apt-get install brltty. A configuration script
prompted me for relevant values, and since my USB serial port is ttyUSB0 I
supplied that device and everything works.

But here's where I'm stuck. When Debian boots, it tries to run BRLTTY before
it initializes the USB system, so there are errors. BRLTTY recovers from the
errors and does work,  thanks to all you developers' wonderful efforts. But
I'd like to fix things so BRLTTY is loaded a little later in the process, or
so that the USB sub-system is initialized a bit earlier.

This clearly isn't a problem with BRLTTY but I'm hoping someone would direct
me to the relevant documentation. I've been kind of disappointed with the
Debian reference; it seems disorganized and out of date. I know that unlike
Slackware, quite a bit of Debian is under the control of the packaging
system, and daemons aren't typically loaded by hand. I'm intimidated by all
the complexity of the hundreds of files in /etc. There are so many thousands
of little scripts and I don't want to break something. For example, I'm
familiar with editing brltty.conf, but under Debian, it was done for me
automagically, and I both appreciate and distrust setups that are so
friendly.

Perhaps someone can point me to a document that clearly explains how to
change the boot sequence the Debian way.

--Debee

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