[BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7

Wed Mar 1 15:03:47 EST 2017

Hi, all,

Thank you so much! I decided to only follow your advice half way. I made a
couple of modifications to the brltty.spec file from the srpm and was able
to build and upgrade to Brltty 5.4 RPMs.

Adrian, the system service script you attached didn't come through, and I'm
still having some trouble getting brltty to start successfully on boot. It
starts then dies, and I'm still trying to find a way to get the errors with
journalctl. If you don't mind sending your service script again, I'd be
interested in what you're doing.

Thanks,
Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY [mailto:brltty-bounces at brltty.com] On Behalf Of Adrian van
Bloois
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:03 AM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Adrian van Bloois wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2017/02/28 at 08:26 -0600]
> > 
> > >While the version of brltty that Centos provides works, it lacks a
couple
> > >things. 
> > 
> > And, if you're using a laptop on battery power, 4.5 is much less
friendly to 
> > that battery than 5 is.
> > 
> > >First, I can't, for anything, get any sound out of it for alert
> > >tunes. After looking at its dependencies, I noticed it didn't have alsa
libs
> > >listed. Could it be that the Centos-distributed version
(brltty-4.5-13.el7)
> > >doesn't have any sound support other than the beeper device?
> > 
> > Do ldd on the brltty executable to see which libraries it's using.
> > 
> > >So, I tried the brltty-5.4 RPM available for download from brltty.com.
I
> > >really wanted to move to Brltty V5, anyway. I run it at home on a
Gentoo
> > >system, and I like a number of the changes including the new button
mappings
> > >for my PowerBraille 80. Sadly, it's looking for, among other things,
libicu
> > >4.9. Centos 7 comes with 5.0. Sigh.
> > 
> > Best, really, to build brltty for yourself. That way, you can
specifically 
> > configure it for the system you have.
> > 
> > >Next stop, the source RPM. Try to build my own. I attempt to add the
many
> > >dependencies required to build the RPM: 23 that I didn't yet have.
However,
> > >one can't be met: gcc-java. It's not available in RHEL and Centos 7
that I
> > >can see.
> > 
> > You can configure with --disable-java-bindings. That shouldn't cause any

> > problems. Again, though, doing that may require a non-RPM build. Get the

> > tarball - not the rpm - and build from that.
> > 
> > >Can anyone point me to a binary RPM of Brltty for Centos 7 that has
ALSA
> > >support for PCM alert tunes? Or perhaps the Centos one does and I'm
just not
> > >configuring something right? I tried many times this week to make it
work.
> > 
> > I myself am not familiar with CentOS 7. Maybe someone else on this list
is.
> yes, I'm running CentOS 7.3 since a couple of months.
> As Dave suggests,  use the tarball!!!
> Attached is my brltty.service which differs from the one from the rpm or
> the one from the tarball.
One thing more, remove the -t my from the start line in brltty.service

> My configure script is like this:
> ./configure \
> 	--prefix=/usr/local \
> 	--sysconfdir=/etc \
> 	--datadir=//usr/local/share \
> 	--localstatedir=/var \
> 	--disable-java-bindings \
> 	--disable-tcl-bindings \
> 	--disable-lisp-bindings \
> 	--disable-ocaml-bindings \
> 	--with-braille-driver=YOURDISPLAYDRIVER \
> 	--with-curses=ncurses \
> 	--with-screen-driver=lx
> > 
> > >Alternatively, can anyone make suggestions for building the srpm? What
> > >changes might I need to make to the configure command-line to not need
> > >gcc-java, 
> > 
> > As mentioned above: Build from the tarball, and configure with 
> > --disable-java-bindings.
> > 
> > >and would might I lose if I left that out? 
> > 
> > Only the functinality of anything that relies on the Java bindings for
BrlAPI. 
> > I don't think there are any major public apps that do.
> > 
> > >Would that hurt any of the Gnome/Orca brlapi integration?
> > 
> > No. They use the Python bindings.
> > 
> > -- 
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> 	Adri P. van Bloois
> 
> 
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