Installing FC2 with BRLTTY.

[Janina Sajka]

No, no, a CDR from September would be very wrong. That would be FC1 and
not FC2. Among many other things FC1 is a 2.4 kernel, while FC2 is the
first Fedora Core based on a 2.6 kernel.

Cheryl Homiak writes:
> actually, I just made a brltty.iso using Dave's script and the boot.iso on 
> the speakup site. It successfully booted both brltty and speakup for me at 
> the same time.
> 
> However, it did not work with my first installation cd, but this is 
> probably because my installation cds are from September. I am in the 
> process of downloading and burning the first current speakup-FC2 cd to see 
> whether this brltty.iso works with it. The error I got when I tried to use 
> my first cd was:
> "no fedora cd found: no cd was found that matches your boot media
> so I believe this means that each time you update Speakup on the site you 
> must also update the brltty.iso.
> 
> two caveats:
> there has been a bug that caused some strange problems with data flow 
> through the braille display halting until a key was pressed when speakup 
> and brltty were used together. so either make sure this bug is squashed or 
> advise people not to boot the installation with both speakup and brltty.
> 
> Second, I did get the following warnings when making the brltty.iso (using 
> brltty-3.5.tar.gz since that was the stable version):
> 
> sys_linux.o(.text+0x136): In function `loadSharedObject':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Programs/sys_shlib_dlfcn.h:21: warning: 
> Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the 
> shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x804): In function `setInetAddress':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:286: warning: 
> Using 'gethostbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime 
> the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x837):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:293: warning: Using 'endhostent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x7bd):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:308: warning: Using 'getservbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x7ce):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:315: warning: Using 'endservent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> sys_linux.o(.text+0x136): In function `loadSharedObject':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Programs/sys_shlib_dlfcn.h:21: warning: 
> Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the 
> shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x804): In function `setInetAddress':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:286: warning: 
> Using 'gethostbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime 
> the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x837):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:293: warning: Using 'endhostent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x7bd):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:308: warning: Using 'getservbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> ../Drivers/Virtual/braille.o(.text+0x7ce):/tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Drivers/Virtual/braille.c:315: warning: Using 'endservent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> sys_linux.o(.text+0x136): In function `loadSharedObject':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Programs/sys_shlib_dlfcn.h:21: warning: 
> Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the 
> shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> sys_linux.o(.text+0x136): In function `loadSharedObject':
> /tmp/rhmkiso.C2w0zf/brltty-3.5/Programs/sys_shlib_dlfcn.h:21: warning: 
> Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the 
> shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> 
> Hth, though I'm sure you all are way ahead of me and probably know all 
> this.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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