[BRLTTY] Fedora dracut module

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Jaroslav Skarvada on 2018/06/04 at 04:24 -0400]

>OK, I will add them all as boot command line parameters, 

Thanks.

>syntax: brltty.lower_case_parameter_without_brltty_prefix, e.g. for
>BRLTTY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE the following boot parameter will work:
>brltty.attributes_table
>
>I will use this syntax to be consistent with other kernel and dracut parameters

Yes, that makes sense. Do you see any benefit in brltty looking for them rather
than hard-coding the list externally?
 
>> I don't see brltty-lsinc being used (yet) to support brltty.conf and table
>> include statements. Is this something you'd be adding, or would it be
>> something
>> that you'd like me to look into adding?
>> 
>Initially, we didn't add it. It could be added later. Feel free to provide
>patch.

It's jsut that include is used a lot. For example, let's consider text tables.
Since our 26-letter alphabet is quite common, it's defined in one place and
included in many places.

># dnf install brltty-dracut

So it's already a package. That's nice. I guess it's in an experimental
repository, though, since dnf install, here, isn't finding it. Do I need to
enable something?

>On the GDM login screen just hit 'Alt + Super + S' and ORCA will be started,
>it's started with speech and Braille enabled. For Braille to work brltty
>service has to be run.

You'll see from a later message that I finally did figure that out. It's
clearly described, of course, but there are so many other bits of advice out
there that it took me a long time and lots of mistakes to get there. If that
was my experience then I imagine that it's also been the experience of many
other less experienced users. I wonder if there's a way to make it much easier
to discover.

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