[BRLTTY] Please test again (was: Re: [slint] brltty-6.3: testers wanted)

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

After investigation and having reported the issue on the brltty mailing list
(thanks Dave Mielke), I remembered that in Slint brltty is started 
during boot
up at a time where the root partition is mounted read only, to allow 
checking
its file system.

For a yet unknown reason if using version 6.3 this prevents brltty to work
through orca and also leads to need a signal 9 to kill it.

As a workaround I have modified the script /etc/rc.dr/rc.S to start brltty
after the root partition has been re-mounted read write.

This seems to work here, I have checked using the options "-b tt -d 
/dev/tty2":
I do get the text intended to be sent to the Braille display in the second
console (/dev/tty2).

To be 1O0% sure, please users or Braille + speech on the desktop test the
packages I have prepared, typing:
lftp -c "mirror https://slint.fr/repo/"
cd repo
su # to get root's privilege
upgradepkg --reinstall *txz

If your feedback confirms that this work as expected I will upload these
packages to the Slint repository.

I consider this as a workaround because starting brltty after the root file
system has been checked prevent folks using only Braille to see the error
message displayed in case the file system check failed: they will not 
know why
they get no output on the Braille display in that case.

Cheers,
Didier

Le 16/02/2021 à 09:18, Pawel Loba a écrit :
> Another report.
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty stop command stops my Braille display, however, it 
> doesn't stop BRLTTY daemon since the next command /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty 
> start doesn't reactivate my Braille display and speech tells me that it 
> is because of BRLTTY daemon is running.
> 
> I killed this daemon by executing killall brltty -9 and then ran 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty start and speech said that BRLTTY daemon is started 
> and I am getting my Braille display working bck in both console & 
> graphical envoronments from now on.
> 
> I tried my best Didier & hopefully it makes sense to you.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Pawel
> 
> 
> On 2021-02-15 10:28 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> type as root from the directory where the package has been downloaded:
>> upgradepkg brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.txz
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Didier
>>
>> Le 16/02/2021 à 00:58, Pawel Loba a écrit :
>>> BRLTTY 6.3 package is here.
>>>
>>> Please remind me the procedure to install this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Pawel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2021-02-15 5:04 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I have built a new package brltty-6.3.
>>>>
>>>> I am having hard time checking if it works through Orca, not having 
>>>> a Braille
>>>> display and not being able to read Braille.
>>>>
>>>> It think I should get the output in a tty or terminal for X but was 
>>>> not very
>>>> successful doing that. Anyone knows the good options to use?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway I have uploaded a package here: https://slint.fr/repo/
>>>>
>>>> The file is https://slint.fr/repo/brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.txz
>>>> Its md5 checksum is https://slint.fr/repo/brltty-6.3-x86_64-2slint.md5
>>>>
>>>> Please test it in Mate before I upload it on the Slint repository.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Didier