[BRLTTY] Problem connecting the braille display Brailliant BI 40

Shérab Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Thu Nov 12 16:58:31 EST 2015


Hi Didier,

Many thanks for your investigtions.

Didier Spaier (2015/11/12 22:38 +0100):
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2015 22:06, Didier Spaier wrote:
> 
> > Maybe ask the Debian packager to just to install it?

Mario reads the list, I think.

> > I would be a bit surprised that it be not done yet though,
> > as Debian is known to support brltty since a long time.
> > 
> > I don't know if using systemd changes the way to handle
> > that.
> 
> Well, I had a look at Debian source package
> 5.2~20141018-5.
> In
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/brltty/brltty_5.2~20141018-5.debian.tar.xz,
> I see in /rules:
> cp debian/brltty-udeb.udev.rules
> debian/$@/lib/udev/rules.d/brltty.rules

Well, udeb is for the smaller packaes that are used during
Debian installation.

> So if I understand well you _should_ have a file:
> lib/udev/rules.d/brltty.rules

I don't have it. I did a
/lib/udev# find . -name '*brl*'

which didn't return anything.

> But this brltty.rules is not the same as in the source archive,
> maybe that can explain a difference?

Perhaps a special one has been designed for the Debian Installer...

> If Samuel sees this thread, he will certainly shed some light.
> I an CCing him, just in case.

Thanks!

Shérab.


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