[BRLTTY] FYI: Handy Tech Active Braille now supported via Bluetooth

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Sun Aug 21 16:03:56 EDT 2011


I wrote:

> You wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2011/08/14 at 15:41 +0200]
>>
>>>After installation, however, I have to start BRLTTY manually after login
>>>to make it working. I have an entry for '/bin/brltty' in my /etc/rc.sysinit
>>>file, right after the last USB related stuff. That worked before
>>>installing the new BRLTTY version, with Handy Tech Modular Evolution,
>>>but now, it doesn't.
>>
>> Perhaps, where you invoke brltty in your rc.sysinit, you could add the options 
>> -ldebug and -L/path/to/.logfile so that we can see how it's failing. You can 
>> then post the log file as an attachment for us to look at.
>
> At last I found the problem. I did need to have '/bin/brltty
>>/outfile.log 2>&1' in the rc.sysinit file to get some output:
> /bin/brltty: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> That file is in /usr/lib, and /usr isn't mounted yet.

Question: Can I build BRLTTY without this dependency? What feature do I
then loose?

Thanks

Lars


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