Re: Elementary question

On 05/11/2014 18:43, Philippe Delavalade wrote:

 > IMHO, the best improvement should be to integrate brltty and a boot 
command
 > to make it work. This is the case with some distributions as debian or
 > grml. It was the case with the livecd of LFS 6.3 a long time ago...

I just installed brltty and had a quick look.

Assuming that you are speaking about the installer, that would mean install
brltty in the initrd and slightly  modify the rc.S initialization script
so that:
- the brltty daemon be loaded just before the user logs in
- remove the few input expected from the user before that in the boot
   sequence (no big deal, just optional change of the kernel keymap)

I'll try that and see what I come up with, then send you a link to a
modified installer so you can test it.

I will need to include a test configuration. Could you please send me the
file /etc/brltty.conf that you are currently using?

The installer would also need to be modified to install brltty in the
target system as this is not the case of the default Slackware installer,
that ships brltty in /extra (optional packages). and maybe include a
basic configuration.

Could you send me links to other distributions' installers that already do
that, like those of debian or grml? I could try them in a virtual machine.

 > Another idea should be to customize lthe iso but is it possible and 
more, I
 > think I cann't do this by myself, I should need help.

I am eager to help you on that. If my attempt is successful (see above),
I could send you a script that modify the genuine Slackware installer
to make it "Braille friendly", and after debugging this script could be
made available to other potential users.

 > And does slackware works with gpt partitions ?

Yes it does, at least the current stable version slackware 14.1. The
64-bit edition can also be installed on machines with an UEFI firmware.

Cheers,
Didier

PS I'm re-sending this message that seemingly didn't go through.
I apologize it that makes a duplicate post.