From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Braille Lite Settings for brltty
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:41:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01b201c17292$47348320$e08caad8@tds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111202039250.2031-100000@toccata.grg.afb.net>
Janina,
Thanks for the tips. I'm still used to Windows, which can begin to behave
like a lunatic if it isn't rebooted every day.
John
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 20:42
Subject: Re: Braille Lite Settings for brltty
> John:
>
> Just catching up on email so don't know if anyone's told you yet, but ...
>
> You don't need to reboot to have a change take effect in linux--usually.
> In fact, you rarely need to reboot at all.
>
> In this particular case (with Redhat), you can stop the running mouse
> service by doing:
>
> service gpm stop
>
> Of course, you can also start it with:
>
> service gpm start
>
> And, if you make new settings and just want them to take effect, you do:
>
> service gpm restart
>
> Works well for all kinds of services. See /etc/services.
>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Well I tried turning gpm off and rebooting. No effect. When I did
> > ls -l /dev/mouse
> > before turning gpm off I got a message saying that the file could not be
> > found.
> > Thanks to everyone for their help. We'll get this thing licked
eventually.
> > John
> >
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > http://www.chpi.org
> > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:26
> > Subject: Re: Braille Lite Settings for brltty
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Brent Harding wrote:
> > >
> > > > Speech box mode isn't what you use I don't think. That's for a
braille
> > lite
> > > > to be used as a synthesizer to the computer.
> > >
> > > It is the same mode that allows it to be used as a braille terminal as
> > well.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nicolas
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> --
>
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` John J. Boyer
` Dave Mielke
` Brent Harding
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