Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Daniel Dalton]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 05:49:53PM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> > debian it would start as soon as the root fs was mounted and the brltty
> > files were accessible.
> 
> I've compared the Ubuntu and Debian 4.4.5 packages and there's a difference.

Right, ok, this could be it - thank you, I'll investigate. 

I decided to build brltty from source, and remove the ubuntu brltty
package. Retained the init.d script from debian placed it in /etc/init.d
and made a link from /etc/rcS.d/S03brltty to /etc/init.d/brltty. 

It appears to start a bit earlier, but I'm not convinced how early -
might need a sighted person's help to verify this at some point. 
It seems to start slightly earlier, but the boot didn't seem as readable
as debian. Maybe there is something different about the actual booting
process in ubuntu. 

Anyway building from source and using this method works ok on debian, so
I'll have to just keep investigating ubuntu a bit more.

Thanks,
Dan