On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 16:05, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2004(a)gmail.com
<mailto:audiogamer2004@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear George,
>
> Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then.
>
> Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to
download the source rpm as well?
Brltty.com lists both, and so I don’t know
how to go about it the right way.
>
>
> You should not need the source rpm. Try "dnf install
Downloads/brltty-6.3-1.x86_64.rpm". If there is an
> error, post the error message here for advice. There could be issues
with a signature (if |localpkg_gpgcheck|
> is set to True) or the version of a library (might require building the
package on Fedora 33).
Just wondering.
You're suggesting the OP download and install brltty from
brltty.com
why? Has the fedora supplied
version proven not to work?
Apparently the Fedora package doesn't create a group needed by brltty (a
capability added in 6.3).
The online docs mention a group with user-defined name (for access to a
"key") as well as setgid.
I'm not sure if there is more than one group needed, or whether there are
other constraints (values
less than 1000) so it is best to get groups set up by systemd.
The Fedora package may have been tested and only used system that already
had the group(s) defined.
The brltty RPM has the "linux-screen" driver which provides the simplest
useful configuration so a good
starting point.
I also notice that the number of packages supplied by
brltty.com for each
release are different than
that supplied in the fedora repo. Could that be significant in any way?
I assume whoever maintains the Fedora rpm can only test a small subset of
the available devices.
I also notice the brltty-xw package (XWindow driver for BRLTTY) but not
sure what functionality or
purpose it serves. Or what, if any, problems would arise if not installed.
It appears to be needed to use orca for braille display of X.org text
windows.
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