Re: Problems with Brltty

[Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on November 19, 2001, at 02:08]

>Now when i boot the login: prompt comes up
>briefly and then disappears.

There are, typically, two reasons that this happens. Firstly, it'll happen if
your system is set up to start the X gui (still a possibility, but not likely
since you said you noticed an "init level 3" message). Secondly, it'll happen
if something's displaying an error message after the login prompt has been
written. If it's this latter case, then pressing enter again should get the
login prompt back. Before doing that, try scrolling up with the braille display
to see if there are any error messages.

>However, the advance bars stil do not work
>consistently, the window left, dot 3, and window right, dot 6, do not work
>at all. Sometimes when I press ther right end of the advance bar it actually
>seems to skip back a few lines.

It may only appear to be that way as you may be making an incorrect assumption
regarding what's on the screen. Try going to the top-left of the screen, and
then working your way downward in order to see a logical progression of what
was written to the screen. You can even use shift+pageup to have a look at
what's already been scrolled off the top of the screen.

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