Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-16 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2024/10/17 at 09:07 +1100] >The other thing I noticed is that Crostini doesn't have any /dev/vcs* >devices. I'm not sure what crostini is, but I do know that Chrome OS uses its own terminal, i.e. the Linux screen driver won't work on it. -- I believe the Bible

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-16 Thread Daniel Dalton
I guess that's a good question. Since I don't know enough about this stuff I was hoping using the terminal emulator driver as a work around would be easier than trying to get the linux screen driver to work under Crostini. The other thing I noticed is that Crostini doesn't have any /dev/vcs* device

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-16 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 15/10/24 19:29, Daniel Dalton wrote: Just an update here I was able to get this working by using the new brltty-term script suggested by Dave instead of the old screen driver. This raises the question whether there's a way to install the necessary kernel modules in your environment to ena

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-15 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi Jason, Great to hear from you again, I hope you are doing well! Just an update here I was able to get this working by using the new brltty-term script suggested by Dave instead of the old screen driver. I invoked it using a command like "brltty-term screen". I can read the command prompt fin

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-12 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 8/10/24 07:26, Daniel Dalton wrote: I run brltty from the shell and see the brltty version on the display followed by "no screen". I see the following error which I guess is not unexpected because Crostini may have some differences to a full version of Linux: BRLTTY 6.6 rev BRLTTY-6.6-116

[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, Crostini is a Linux virtual machine that runs on Chrome books. I recently discovered that Crostini now supports sharing my USB Braille display with the virtual machine which means in theory BRLTTY installed within the Linux VM can access it. I run brltty from the shell and see the brltty