Re: What Workd with Gnopernicus?

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Jason,

I'm glad you have seen the braille part of Gnopernicus in operation. 
However, it doesn't work for me, and in my case braille output is vital. I 
do get the welcome message and also a message that presumably means that 
Gnopernicus is shutting down, but there isn't enough of it to be sure. 
Support for Alva displays certainly needs to be improved. This might not 
be difficult. however, Jeff Waugh of Garnome also had difficulty getting 
anything out of the onscreen braille monitor. 

So I'm hoping that the braille output will work in the next release. Bill 
haneman has been a big help, but the problem seems to be with the braille 
modules. It would be interesting to know how the people who did the demo 
got it to work.

John
 On Sat, 17 May 2003, Jason White wrote:

> John J. Boyer writes:
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > As many of you know, i am trying to get braille output from Gnopernicus. 
>  > So far I get only the welcome and goodby messages - and truncated at that. 
>  > It appears that the braille modules don't really work yet.
> 
> In fact the braille modules work very well. I was given a
> demonstration of Gnopernicus running with a Baum Vario braille display
> earlier in the year. The problem in your case could be related to the
> installation and configuration, or it might be that the Alva driver
> doesn't support your particular model of braille display.
> 
> There is a program supplied with Gnopernicus that can present on
> screen everything that is sent to the braille display. If you can make
> that work you might be able to find out whether it's more likely to be
> a driver problem or a configuration issue.
> 
> I can confirm, though, that the braille display subsystem of
> Gnopernicus works very well indeed with supported hardware.
> 

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