[BRLTTY] brltty on Ubuntu 14.04

[John J. Boyer]

I didn't have a braille display connected. As soon as I connected one 
through USB brltty started and recognized it. Now I just have to find 
out how to get to a virtual console, since that is where I do most of my 
work.

John

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:09:58PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> > It has brltty 5.0, but it's not running. How do I set it up to start at 
> > boot time? 
> 
> Ubuntu uses upstart to manage its boot process, so you need to ensure that the
> BRLTTY Upstart job is enabled.
> 
> I don't know Upstart, and my Web searches haven't revealed a quick answer to
> what should be a common question. However, I found the following, which may
> help you:
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/
> 
> Interestingly, the init system that Debian is now migrating to, systemd,
> offers a straightforward command for doing this: systemctl enable brltty,
> which invokes BRLTTY during the boot process.  You can also run systemctl
> start brltty to start it manually.
> 
> >From memory, systemd is now the init system in Arch Linux, Fedora and
> OpenSUSE.
> 
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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