Samuel Thibault wrote: > Well, maybe this could be fixed somehow. Mario, maybe we could rather > use hotplug rules for only starting brltty when > > - either hotplug discovered braille USB devices,
We use udev now, if there is a way for udev to discover braille devices that would be an excellent way to go. > - or the user added brltty= parameter on the command line. > > As noted in #359062, it won't work if the framebuffer display and > > bterm are being used. > > This can be fixed quite easily with very minor modification of bterm. > > > I wonder what the effect of startg in brltty is on systems that don't > > have a braille display? Does the daemon remain running, > > It does indeed. Ok, this patch shouldn't be applied while that's true. > > Also, the patch still adds brltty to a lot of images that are special > > purpose and/or limited size, including netboot-apus, cdrom-minimal, > > netboot-minimal, cdrom-apus and generic (s390). > > It should be kept at least on cdrom-minimal and netboot-minimal. 138KB > is not _that_ much on such devices, compared to the precious help it > will be for blind people to install Debian. I've just removed cdrom-minimal and netboot-mimimal from the tree; no image uses those lists anymore. -- see shy jo
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