[BRLTTY] Stopping brltty in Debian; also starting a different brltty and running brltty sooner

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks much! I will give this a try.

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Cheryl

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> On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
> 
> Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> writes:
> 
>> How does one now stop brltty in debian. I have the debian package
>> installed
>> but I also have the latest github version installed. I can't figure
>> out how to stop debian's brltty from running. Killall -9 stops it but
>> it is started up again and the same thing seems to happen with tryint
>> to use /etc/init.d/brltty stop.
> 
> This looks like systemd.  Try "systemctl stop brltty".
> 
>> Secondly, now that there is no inittab I cannot figure out how to
>> start brltty as early as possible. I tried using initramfs and I can't
>> recall now what happened so maybe I need to try it again but it either
>> didn't start it earlier or caused other complications; I will check
>> into that again. But also I can't figure out how to have my github
>> version of brltty start up instead if I want that and start as early
>> as possible. I realize we have moved on and maybe eventually I will be
>> happy with it but I knew how to use /etc/inittab and I really don't
>> know how to use this new setup.
> 
> systemd is indeed a completely new beast.  THe inittab as such is gone,
> as far as I know.  systemd does dependency-based booting.
> So you specify the actual point where BRLTTY should be run by changing
> your unit file.
> 
> This brings me to your development version.  You could write a new
> systemd unit file, something like brltty-github.service.
> This would start your local installation.
> You can then start/stop these two individually.
> 
> You can look at /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service
> for an example.  Copy that to /etc/systemd/system/brltty-github.service
> and adjust the file.  Dont forget to call "systemctl daemon-reload".
> 
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