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I think Debian Trixie would detect a USB display out of the box as
long as it is one that BRLTTY is known to work with.<br>
It can work with Bluetooth once the device is paired.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/25 3:35 PM, Tom Kirby wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,
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<div>I am a (sighted) Computer Science teacher based in the UK
with a keen, interested and talented student who is 16 years
old and visually impaired. He is confident with his existing
braille devices, and one of them (a Mantis Q40) is supposed to
work with brltty. (Unfortunately, his brand new HumanWare
Monarch apparently can't do this, in spite of its amazing
multi-line touch display <i>etc</i>.)</div>
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<div>I'm trying to set up a laptop for my student with a simple
Linux console, connected to his Mantis Q40. I have the use of
a capable enough Lenovo laptop that I can do as I like with.
My dream is to have him able to interact with the Linux
console and - through it - to be able to write and run Python
programs. I think that interacting with a console, shell etc.
would be well within his capabilities, even though some of my
sighted students struggle with this!</div>
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<div>I don't need to have brltty start early in the boot
sequence, as (for now) my student will have plenty of sighted
help when using the laptop.</div>
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<div>Getting up and running with brltty has been far from
simple. Though I would consider myself pretty experienced with
Linux, I've struggled to get brltty working on Mint, and I've
found it pretty difficult on Arch as well.</div>
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<div>Is there a distribution where brltty works pretty much out
of the box? Or if not, is there a (simple) set of
recommendations for getting it to work on a clean install of
Arch?</div>
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<div>Please excuse me if I'm asking something that could be
answered with a simple Google. I've tried engaging with the
brltty web pages, but there is a great deal in there and I
don't know quite where to start and how much of it is current
and relevant to what I am trying to achieve.</div>
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<div>Thank you and best wishes</div>
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<div>Tom</div>
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