[BRLTTY] Starting Orca on Fedora.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Rob on 2018/06/02 at 21:26 -0500]

>What about using the xorg-video-dummy driver, or doing something with xvfb which is a sort of fake xorg server.

Yes, I can try. That may indeed be the best for now. What I lose, though, is
the ability to show something to a sighted person and/or ask a sighted person
for assistence. An experienced sihted person could always use vnc, of coruse,
but I'm surrounded by real people (wife, children, grandchidlren), i.e. a lot
of them aren't that experienced and shouldn't need to be.

Maybe X has a way to define both a real monitor and a virtual monitor, and has
a way to switch between them. Even so, though, I suspect that system boot
cmpletion is probably even blocked if a connected monitor is turned off. That
just doesn't seem right. Shouldn't a completed boot be a little more fault
tolerant? It certaniy shouldn't crash the whole system if there's a bad
configuration for the monitor, and I don't understand why it needs to block if
the monitor isn't connected or is connecgted but turned off.

Also, blocking text logins on other ttys until gdm decides that it's healthy
ebnough for use doesn't seem right. In fairness to the sighted people who
designed this, though, I bet they couldn't imagine doing a text login on
another tty without a monitor. :-)

Maybe, one day, the sighted world will finally understand that a blind person's
braille display is just as important as a sighted person's monitor!

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