Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

[George N. White III]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 16:05, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera <[e-mail]
>
> > 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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