brltty and red hat 9

brltty and red hat 9

[jacobs]

Hi listers
I dug out my powerbraille 80 yesterday and decided to put it to use. So I
installed the brltty 3.2 RPM, editted the configuration file, and launched
brltty. All was well... for about 5 seconds. Then my display showed what
looks like computer braille question marks (dots 1-4-5-6). Moving around the
screen with my braille display revealed nothing but computer braille
questionmarks on the bottom half, and grade II braille questionmarks (dots
2-3-6) on the top half of the screen. When starting brltty in rc.sysinit,
things go better up until right before it goes multiuser. Then my display
goes back to the questionmarks. I'm assuming it's something RH does in the
boot scripts, but for the life of me, I can't find it. This does not happen
when I connect the display to my laptop running slackware 9.
Any brltty/redhat users know what's going on here? Yes, I know this is the
speakup list.

Re: brltty and red hat 9

[Tyler Spivey]

i'm just speaking from past postings here, i'm probably wrong so take mya
dvice with a grain of salt.
i believe that red hat uses something called kudzu. the spelling's wrong,
but it detects any new hardware and tries to configure it.
i'm not sure how to shut it off, but that's probably your problem.
again, i'm not sure, i'm just going on a lim here.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jacobs@surferie.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:48 AM
Subject: brltty and red hat 9


> Hi listers
> I dug out my powerbraille 80 yesterday and decided to put it to use. So I
> installed the brltty 3.2 RPM, editted the configuration file, and launched
> brltty. All was well... for about 5 seconds. Then my display showed what
> looks like computer braille question marks (dots 1-4-5-6). Moving around
the
> screen with my braille display revealed nothing but computer braille
> questionmarks on the bottom half, and grade II braille questionmarks (dots
> 2-3-6) on the top half of the screen. When starting brltty in rc.sysinit,
> things go better up until right before it goes multiuser. Then my display
> goes back to the questionmarks. I'm assuming it's something RH does in the
> boot scripts, but for the life of me, I can't find it. This does not
happen
> when I connect the display to my laptop running slackware 9.
> Any brltty/redhat users know what's going on here? Yes, I know this is the
> speakup list.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: brltty and red hat 9

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, in this case kudzu isn't the problem. You'll need to edit
/sysconfig/i18n, and set the language to en_us.

----- Original Message -----
From: Tyler Spivey <tspivey8@softhome.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: brltty and red hat 9


> i'm just speaking from past postings here, i'm probably wrong so take mya
> dvice with a grain of salt.
> i believe that red hat uses something called kudzu. the spelling's wrong,
> but it detects any new hardware and tries to configure it.
> i'm not sure how to shut it off, but that's probably your problem.
> again, i'm not sure, i'm just going on a lim here.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jacobs@surferie.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:48 AM
> Subject: brltty and red hat 9
>
>
> > Hi listers
> > I dug out my powerbraille 80 yesterday and decided to put it to use. So
I
> > installed the brltty 3.2 RPM, editted the configuration file, and
launched
> > brltty. All was well... for about 5 seconds. Then my display showed what
> > looks like computer braille question marks (dots 1-4-5-6). Moving around
> the
> > screen with my braille display revealed nothing but computer braille
> > questionmarks on the bottom half, and grade II braille questionmarks
(dots
> > 2-3-6) on the top half of the screen. When starting brltty in
rc.sysinit,
> > things go better up until right before it goes multiuser. Then my
display
> > goes back to the questionmarks. I'm assuming it's something RH does in
the
> > boot scripts, but for the life of me, I can't find it. This does not
> happen
> > when I connect the display to my laptop running slackware 9.
> > Any brltty/redhat users know what's going on here? Yes, I know this is
the
> > speakup list.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: brltty and red hat 9

[jacobs]

Hi
Actually, the language wasn't the problem. Lorenzo hit the nail on the head, I
commented out the sysfont line. All is good now. Also got rid of the UTF-8
after confirming the sysfont line was the problem.


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:30:45AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> Hi, in this case kudzu isn't the problem. You'll need to edit
> /sysconfig/i18n, and set the language to en_us.

Re: brltty and red hat 9

[Lorenzo Prince]

Edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and comment out the line that begins 
"font=" and your problem will be solved.  I had the good fortune to have 
stumbled across this problem and its sollution just 2 days ago and am 
happy to be able to share it now that I know it is so easy to fix.

HTH

Lorenzo