More on brltty Problems

More on brltty Problems

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
I forgot to say that I am using a Braille Lite 40 with the December 30 1999
software revision. The funny thing is that brltty worked much better when we
first got it going, then its performance seemed to degrade to the present
level.
Thanks.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703

Re: More on brltty Problems

[Janina Sajka]

John:

Are you booting into a graphical console or a text console? Do you know 
for sure?

In addition to disabling Kudzu, you should make sure that you're booting 
into a text mode, and not a graphical mode. At least I don't believe 
brltty yet supports X!


After the machine boots, you can do Alt+Control+F1 to get to a text mode 
login prompt.

The runlevel controls which mode you get. It is set in /etc/inittab. In 
that file there is a line like this:

id:3:initdefault:

If it says :5:, you might want to edit the file to change the value to :3:

PS: chkconfig is a nice little utility for managing what is and isn't 
launched by the boot process for any particular run level. You can get a 
complete printout on what the settings are by doing:

chkconfig --list


 On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I forgot to say that I am using a Braille Lite 40 with the December 30 1999
> software revision. The funny thing is that brltty worked much better when we
> first got it going, then its performance seemed to degrade to the present
> level.
> Thanks.
> John
> 
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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