[BRLTTY] Suggestion to add an examples for the TTY driver
Dave Mielke
Dave at mielke.cc
Wed Nov 12 23:06:12 UTC 2025
[quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2025/11/12 at 13:45 +0100]
>As I do not own (and do not know how to use) a Braille device, to test the
>brltty package or its dependencies in Slint I include in /etc/brltty.conf these
>two lines:
>braille-driver tt
>braille-device /dev/tty3
>
>Maybe such (commented out) settings could be included in
>Documents/brltty.conf.in as examples to help packagers?
Perhaps, but I think we need to be careful with such exaples as the usual case is that tty3 isn't free. A better approach might be to write a README that teaches how to do it and, in fact, also covers the xw driver which is also useful for testing for those without a braille device.
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