Hi, Michael, No, haven't tried that route yet. That post says it'll work with Emacspeak, but I prefer Speakup so I can have my screen reader right there in the kernel at boot time.
Some recent posts from the Speakup list discuss some work-arounds to get a USB to serial converter working on a 64-bit architecture which I'd need to do. No big deal, I'm not afraid of a little kernel hacking. And as I think about this more, if I built the right things in, it would probably work from boot time. I'll explore this route, thanks for the suggestion. Still haven't rebooted into a system-based system, but I do have the brltty.service file from ArchLinux in place. Other than modifying the path to brltty from /usr/bin to /bin, what I have there is taken directly from the link that Chris sent. I hope to try the big reboot later this week, and I'll report back then. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Michael J. Astrauskas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 8:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Brltty and systemd? Keith, Have you tried a USB-to-serial converter? A forum post at http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/2013/msg00582.html <http://www.cs.vassar.edu/%7Epriestdo/emacspeak/2013/msg00582.html> suggests it'll work for you. -- - Michael On 2/3/2014 9:46 AM, Keith Wessel wrote: > I haven't gotten into espeakup or software synths yet on my system. > I'm still on mourning that my new system from a year ago doesn't have > on-board serial ports and thus my good old Dectalk Express is now > useless. I should do something with this sooner or later, though. For > now, I just panic and go find my wife to read the screen whenever I > can't get brltty going. ;) > > Thanks again, > Keith
