[BRLTTY] Got brltty running again on Snow Leopard

[Cheryl Ann Homiak]

I installed Rosetta and screen-4.0.1 worked. I imagine that since I 
haven't been able to compile this version of screen on my Intel mac mini, 
the one I had compiled and was trying to use was compiled on a powerpc 
machine when I had one, though I still haven't figured out why it ran fine 
in Leopard unless Rosetta was installed automatically in Leopard but not 
in Snow Leopard. It's working fine now; keyboard emulation doesn't work 
but I can't remember whether it ever worked or not. I still have to run 
the configure with disable-api. I've upgraded all outdated packages on 
Macports but haven't tested to see whether or not I still have to put the 
/opt paths at the end in order to get brltty to install. I'll probably 
have Dave look at my system eventually to see whether we can solve the 
issues but at least I can use it now. I can even start up screen as a 
login item on my Mac though I still have to manually start brltty.

Apple does support quite a few braille displays now on the Mac, though I 
don't know for sure how well it does in terminal. Unfortunately Apple's 
braille program doesn't support usb-serial devices though it does support 
usb and also bluetooth. But having brltty work in terminal makes it 
possible for me to do a lot of command-line tasks and programs right on 
the Mac instead of always having to go to a linux machine. I'm typing this 
email in Pine in Terminal and using both voiceover and brltty.



-- 
Cheryl

"Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight,
O LORD, my strength and my redeemer."
(Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV)