[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Raspberry Pi

[J. R. Westmoreland]

Sorry, my mistake. I kept somehow thinking that there was a driver that need to be loaded into the kernel. I’m too used to thinking of a braille display as a native device that requires it’s own device driver. :-)

Best,
J. R.


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> On Jun 8, 2020, at 17:08, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> hmmm, brltty is not part of the kernel ??
> 
>> On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:26:56 -0400,
>> J. R. Westmoreland wrote:
>> 
>> I currently have a RPi4B running gentoo linux image generated by Sakaki. I
>> will probably have to rebuild the kernel to include brltty. It's been a
>> while since I've attacked a linux project. I've been off doing things like
>> Xcode and things Mac related.
>> 
>> I'll keep everyone posted as to my progress.
>> 
>> J. R.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Kyle
>> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 12:00 PM
>> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>> <brltty at brltty.app>
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Raspberry Pi
>> 
>> I'm not sure about Gentoo, but I have successfully used it on ArchLinuxARM
>> on both 32-bit and 64-bit ARM processors. I was considering looking at
>> Gentoo on one of my computers, as all I use these days is 32-bit and 64-bit
>> ARM, but I wanted to try it on 64-bit devices, one of which is a Raspberry
>> Pi 3B+, and find that the Gentoo version for these devices is fairly old and
>> still considered to be experimental. I do know that brltty has no problem
>> compiling for either architecture, so if you can get Gentoo working, you can
>> certainly use brltty.
>> 
>> ~Kyle
>> 
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