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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Nicolas,
> Turning kudzu off helped some. It eliminated the puzzling ,,at that was
> coming up on my Braille Lite. brltty is now more stable. I also checked to
> make sure I was in a text console mode. There is a message that says "init
> level 3", so that should be ok. Now when i boot the login: prompt comes up
> briefly and then disappears. 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.

What version of BRLTTY do you have?  Did you try the latest (version 2.99 if 
I remember correctly)?

If your problems persist you may check with Stephane Doyon (e-mail address 
in CC) who worked on the BrailleLite a lot recently.


Nicolas