[BRLTTY] Brltty on arch linux?

[Cheryl Homiak]

Yes, I actually do use debian still on my old Thinkpad laptops but the Arch cd that is adapted for blind users where you first boot into the system on the cd and then do the install seemed easier to manage on vmware fusion. It certainlyh is possible also though to do a Debian disk with vmware fusion. I am amazed that all the problem stems from that one line in the brltty build but it really shouldn't surprise me because when I did some programming years ago, I learned it was usually one seemingly tiny thing that had me working through the program and wracking my brain. I think that now that i have subversion working again, I'll stick with that track as I also do on my debian machines for the most part. I do use Aur quite a bit but it never occurred to me that I needed to look for an Aur package for brltty.

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Cheryl

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On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Øyvind Lode - Forums <forums at lode.is> wrote:

> The Arch brltty package has a lot of dependencies including dbus and several x11 related packages.
> 
> I believe that if you install the default brltty package on Arch these days pacman will pull in a full blown GNOME desktop as well.
> Personally I don't care about GNOME and I only want to use the text console.
> 
> There is a brltty-minimal package in AUR which do not depend on all these useless (in my opinion) packages.
> 
> Download the brltty-minimal package from AUR and install it.
> If you're not familiar with AUR packages I highly recommend reading the Arch Wiki entry on AUR.
> In short you can't install AUR packages directly with pacman since AUR packages are not binaries.
> The aur package only includes a build script and by using a aur helper it downloads the source code, compiles it and generate a binary which can be installed using pacman.
> 
> I haven't used Arch for quite some time now.
> I went back to good old Debian and I don't miss Arch at all.
> 
> Debian (wheezy) provides both brltty and Speakup in the official install images which is simply awesome.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault
> Sent: 17. august 2012 00:13
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty on arch linux?
> 
> Cheryl Homiak, le Thu 16 Aug 2012 12:34:04 -0500, a écrit :
>> I just made the mistake of upgrading arch linux on my vmware fusion installation, which I hadn't done for a while. I now can't run brltty. Nothing happens on my display. The information I get is this:
>> 
>> 2012-08-16 at 12:10:14.982 BRLTTY 4.3 rev 5477 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]
>> 2012-08-16 at 12:10:14.990 Can't get dbus session bus: 
>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported Unable to autolaunch a 
>> dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
>> 
>> I found a bug on this but I haven't found a resolution to it. I'm just using my braillelite 40 with arch linux in console, not trying to run orca. Is there a fix for this?
> 
> It's odd that it tries to connect to dbus, only the atspi2 driver should be doing that, but it's not supposed to be enabled by default. Did the arch maintainer use any particular configuration?  I remember something like that, maybe it was Arch.
> 
> Samuel
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