Brltty question

Brltty question

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
a colleague  of mine wants to try out Brltty under debian.
His serial braille display does not respond to anything being echoed to 
it.
>From the side of the PC everything looks as if it is working, no error 
message or hang or such.
The physical port is working as he can use his braille display from 
Windows on the same machine.
Are there any drivers that should be loaded to make this work?
TIA, Willem


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Re: Brltty question

[Cheryl Homiak]

I think we really need more information to answer this. What display is he 
using? What version of brltty is he using--is it the debian brltty package 
or one from the brltty site? What command is your friend using to start 
brltty or what configuration choices did your friend make when installing 
it?


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Re: Brltty question

[Willem van der Walt]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
It is a Power-braille 65/81
It is the Debian package of brltty.
After installation which also do configuration, he starts with 
The command brltty
without any options.
It is the current version coming with Debian, not sure exactly.


> I think we really need more information to answer this. What display is he 
> using? What version of brltty is he using--is it the debian brltty package 
> or one from the brltty site? What command is your friend using to start 
> brltty or what configuration choices did your friend make when installing 
> it?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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Re: Brltty question

[Michael Whapples]

Try starting brltty with some options, e.g. the -b option with the braille 
driver (for my alva it is al), or the -d option to specify the port. Have 
you tried libbraille, if that works, then brltty can use libbraille (well at 
some of the latest versions of brltty, not sure about the debian package).

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Subject: Re: Brltty question


>
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> It is a Power-braille 65/81
> It is the Debian package of brltty.
> After installation which also do configuration, he starts with
> The command brltty
> without any options.
> It is the current version coming with Debian, not sure exactly.
>
>
>> I think we really need more information to answer this. What display is 
>> he
>> using? What version of brltty is he using--is it the debian brltty 
>> package
>> or one from the brltty site? What command is your friend using to start
>> brltty or what configuration choices did your friend make when installing
>> it?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheryl
>>
>> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
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Re: Brltty question

[Chris Norman]

Look in /etc/brltty.conf, check that.

I think that by default brltty looks on a usb port for the braille display.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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Subject: Re: Brltty question


>
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> It is a Power-braille 65/81
> It is the Debian package of brltty.
> After installation which also do configuration, he starts with
> The command brltty
> without any options.
> It is the current version coming with Debian, not sure exactly.
>
>
>> I think we really need more information to answer this. What display is 
>> he
>> using? What version of brltty is he using--is it the debian brltty 
>> package
>> or one from the brltty site? What command is your friend using to start
>> brltty or what configuration choices did your friend make when installing
>> it?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheryl
>>
>> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: Brltty question

[Gene Collins]

Hello all,

Try starting brltty with the command line brltty -b ts -d /dev/ttyS0

The -b option and the ts argument tell brltty to use the Telesensory
Systems driver, which works for the Powerbraille and the -d option with
the /dev/ttyS0 argument specifies the device to look at.

HTH,
Gene

Re: Brltty question

[Chris Norman]

What braille display is being used? Is the command right? Do you have the 
right braille display keyword? Are you specifying the right port?

HTH,

Chris Norman
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Subject: Brltty question


> Hi,
> a colleague  of mine wants to try out Brltty under debian.
> His serial braille display does not respond to anything being echoed to
> it.
> From the side of the PC everything looks as if it is working, no error
> message or hang or such.
> The physical port is working as he can use his braille display from
> Windows on the same machine.
> Are there any drivers that should be loaded to make this work?
> TIA, Willem
>
>
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