[BRLTTY] how to make brltty start all the time from the bootprocedure of Ubuntu

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hello from here, <grin>

I DID IT!

It turns out braille does start from the beginning but the problem is you 
can't see it. In order to stop hiding and deleting the boot messages I had 
to make two changes. Note that I've never bothered to make Orca work so have 
no idea what I may be missing, but for a console-based system like mine the 
following works:

1. The instructions in the file pointed to in a previous message are 
correct, but note that the default console is really console 1 (see the 
tty(1) command) which is Ctrl+Alt+F1. However, I won't need to use that 
keystroke in the following.

2. In menu.lst I removed all instances (about 3) of the word "splash". This 
prevents display of the splash screen which is what gives the "Screen not in 
text mode" message. The screen comes up in text mode, but once Gnome starts 
it goes into graphics mode anyway and thus throws away all boot messages 
before the current screen.

3. Since Ubuntu boots into runlevel 2, I went to /etc/rc2.d. There's a 
README file in that directory, and following instructions given there I 
renamed the link that starts gdm. On my system, at least, this link was 
named S30gdm, so I renamed it to K70gdm. I rebooted.

Result: I'm on console 1 (tty1), the first console, and I can see the last 
25 lines of boot messages. To see prior messages I hold down Shift+PageUp to 
eventually get back all the way to the beginning of the boot messages.

Presumably, to start Orca you'd do:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

but this is untested. Your mileage may vary...

HTH,

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Lee Maschmeyer
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA