Re: Making a BSD system more braille friendly

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	Hello Enrico.  What I did was the following:

1.  Built the patched version of screen, apply the patches in the brltty
distribution to the screen package in the pkgsrc distribution.

2.  Build and install the patched version of screen using the tools.

3.  Build brltty using the ugen(4) driver and the oss sound system.

4.  Install brltty, making it owned by root and set the setuid bit.  (Make
sure you  only do this on a machine to which only you have access since
brltty iis not designed to be setuid and is surely a security risk on a
multi-user system.)

5.  Now, when you log into the system, you can run screen, then brltty and
you'll have a fully accessible braille terminal.  In fact, you can create a
shell script in your home directory that you can execute out of your
.profile or .login file that will execute these things for you so that once
you type your password, your braille display will spring to life.

	Brltty has all the drivers for the various braile displays it supports
built in, so you don't need to worry about building special support for
your braille display.

-Brian