[BRLTTY] Using BRLTTY on a Chromebook from a Linux container

[Devin Prater]

Crostini is, as far as I've been able to find, an LXC container. It does
support some devices through USB passthrough, so I figured it could work
somehow.

I've written this issue:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1273670

So we'll see where it goes. :)
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com




On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:16 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Devin Prater on 2021/11/24 at 10:27 -0600]
>
> >has anyone had experience using BRLTTY on a Chromebook with the
> >Crostini Linux container?
>
> What, exactly, is crostini?
>
> >I tried plugging in the Braille display (NLS EReader from Humanware)
>
> Using USB or Bluetooth? I ask because the version of brltty that's
> currently on chrome OS is 6.4 (or maybe still something earlier on yours)
> which doesn't yet support that device via Bluetooth. USB will work, but
> Bluetooth support is, as yet, still only in the development stream. It will
> be in 6.5.
>
> >and running BRLTTY, but nothing happened, even when
> >turning off ChromeVox. This may not be possible, but I'm trying to get as
> >much out of the Chromebook as possible, as my main laptop running Windows
> >is too slow to be productive these days.
>
> The main problem is that Chrome OS doesn't use Linux's /dev/vcs* devices.
> It has its own, non-kernel, way to manage the screen content. A new screen
> driver, therefore, would need to be written.
>
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