Fwd: Re: Bug#774536: grub2-common: Could brltty uncomment GRUB_INIT_TUNE

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>]

If the ML wasn't Cced.
   

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Sujet :	Re: Bug#774536: grub2-common: Could brltty uncomment GRUB_INIT_TUNE
Date :	Sun, 4 Jan 2015 14:41:52 +0000
De :	Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Pour :	Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>, 774536@bugs.debian.org

Control: reassign -1 brltty

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 03:06:08AM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> I install Debian Jessie. I proceed in braille, I enabled Desktop environment,
> MATE. It results when Debian starts, the lightdm has Orca speaking, the desktop
> speaks, and brltty is on.
[...]
> I want at boot time, grub beeps to inform a blind person that it's possible to
> choose his OS in grub. 
> So I change GRUB_INIT_TUNE in /etc/default/grub, I uncomment it.
[...]
> After I installed Debian, before doing what above said, GRUB doesn't beep.
> However brltty script changes now things in lightdm-gtk-greeter and MATE.
[...]
> I expect GRUB to beep. Actually Debian knows I use braille, enables what's
> needed for lightdm and MATE, could it enable GRUB beep?
> 
> For this, brltty should be able to uncomment GRUB_INIT_TUNE in /etc/default/grub.

I think the right way to do this would be for brltty to create
/etc/default/grub.d/brltty.cfg with the configuration it thinks
appropriate.  It shouldn't modify /etc/default/grub.  Reassigning to
brltty.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]