[BRLTTY] Starting BRLTTY at Login

Christopher Gray chris at bayareadigital.us
Mon Sep 3 20:22:11 EDT 2007


Hello:

I'm having some trouble starting BRLTTY in any way except by hand, at a command 
prompt, as root.  This is in Ubuntu 7.4 (Feisty).

Feisty uses upstart and not init anymore in case this matters.

What I've done is create an executable file at /etc/init.d, copying the 
suggested "if..." text from the brltty manual.  It looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
#
# brltty startup 
#

if [ -x /bin/brltty -a -f /etc/brltty.conf ] then /bin/brltty fi

I've then stuck an exec brlttystart into the rcS file.  However, brltty is not 
starting.  Could the problem be related to Ubuntu's starting Gone, and hopefully 
Orca, first and getting into some sort of collision with brltty?

THanks.

Chris



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