help with the brlapi driver

[Jacob Schmude <jacobs surferie net>]

Hi all
I'm trying to get the brlapi driver for gnopernicus running. I got the
latest brltty from the subversion repository, compiled with the api enabled,
and installed it. Brltty works fine. I then recompiled gnopernicus and it
detected and compiled the brlapi driver.
However, when I select brlapi as the braille device, and 7 as my X console
number, gnopernicus can't initialize the braille device. I've tried
switching the X console option to the console where I ran the startx
command, still no luck. What am I missing? This is a powebraille 80 on
/dev/ttyS1. Brltty has no problems, but there seems to be a problem with
communication between gnopernicus and brltty.
Can anyone help?