[BRLTTY] key problems on Alva Satellite 544 with brltty 3.7.2

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2006/10/02 at 15:26 -0400]

>> Are there any other features which anyone would really like to see in 3.8?
>
>Some way for BRLTTY when built as a standalone-program to redirect its 
>log outputs to a console other than the foreground console.  

The -e option with standard error redirected should do that.

>When, for 
>example, a braillified Fedora install disk is used, any BRLTTY output 
>(for when a display is disconnected and reconnected) completely messes 
>up the installer's display with no way to refresh it back.

I guess syslog isn't running in that environment. There also isn't the benefit
of an invoking shell to redirect standard error in that environment. 

We could add -L (uppercase) [--log-destination=], which takes a file name,
point file descriptor 2 at that file, and set the "log to standard error" flag.
Would that do?

Which virtual console should the braillified installer use for this?

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