[BRLTTY] Starting Orca on Fedora.

[Pawel Loba]

Hello,

Please be patient with me, I don't want to be too annoying with my questions
here.

By visiting this link:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/x8
6_64/os/Packages/b
and also having a look at my installation media I could confirm that these
packages were available there:
brlapi-0.6.7-5.fc28.x86_64.rpm
brltty-5.6-5.fc28.x86_64.rpm

So I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso image file 
and created my installation media - in my case it was the USB stick by
running dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso  of=/dev/sdb 

Now, after starting up my installation process I activated ORCA by pressing
the atl+superkey+s and got my system talking offering me to try Fedora of
the installation media or to run the actual installation but I have no
Braille display working yet.
Could you please instruct me what needs to be done at this point to make my
Focus40 to work.
Thanks for your support.
Pawel

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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Starting Orca on Fedora.

[quoted lines by Pawel Loba on 2018/06/03 at 05:16 -0400]

>You built your graphical environment experience base on the existing 
>system that's probably why you got Braille working afterwards.

I suspect that braille worked because brltty was already running. Just
guessing, but it's probably that something (maybe even Orca itself) tried
connecting to BrlAPI, and, since it worked, enabled braille and started to
use it. I like that kind of sensible decision-making within software and am
hoping that my guess is corret. If so, what it means is that all one should
need to do is to configure and start brltty before starting the install
(assuimg that the brltty and brlapi packages are available at that point).

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