Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

[remus draica <rd baum ro>]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 16:53 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote:

Hi,

In this case, you have 2 choices:
  1. To select the direct driver from gnopernicus (ALVABRAILLE 34d)
  2. To install brltty on your computer and recompile gnopernicus in
order to detect brltty.


IMPORTANT: In case 1, the braille support is available only in graphical
mode.


Regards,
Remus


> Okay.  We discovered that braille is started in the startup box but the is 
> no list of option in preferences/braille/device.  It gives one choice that 
> being none.
> 
> Or at least so I am told.  I might add that speech does not work on that 
> computer because linux doesn't like the sound card.  We are searching for 
> a different one (if we have one) but at this point I must rely on braille 
> and/or sighted help.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:46 +0300
> > From: remus draica <rd baum ro>
> > To: Tom Masterson <kd7cyu yahoo com>
> > Cc: Gnome accessibility <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:05 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Gnopernicus has an UI from which you can configure it. So, no need to
> > use or look into gconf keys.
> >
> > The dialogs you have to look at are:
> >  1. Startup Mode (make sure that braille is on--- the check box is
> > checked)
> >  2. Preferences / 2 Braille / Braille Device (make sure that brltty is
> > selected)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Remus
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Iterestingly when I finally got a sighted colleague to look at it in gnome
> >> here is what we find.
> >> 
> >> using gconftool-2 at the console the device shows as brltty however in
> >> gnome it shows as none and there is no drop down to select from.  I fond
> >> that at the end of day yesterday and am looking into it further today.
> >> 
> >> Note that none of my colleagues have worked with screen reader technology
> >> before so I am having to do some interpretation of what they are reading.
> >> 
> >> Tom
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, remus draica wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:15 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Tom,
> >>> 
> >>> Please check if braille is on in gnopernicus and brltty device is
> >>> selected.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Remus
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> I am using the unstable version of Debian and kernel version 2.6, brltty
> >>>> 3.7.2-3.1 and gnopernicus 1.0.5-1.
> >>>> I am getting no response from the braille display when I type startx 
> >>>> other
> >>>> than "screen in not in text mode".  The braille display is an Alva abt34d
> >>>> which works fine with brltty at the console.  Any ideas of what might be
> >>>> wrong and how to solve it?  I followed the instructions on the brltty 
> >>>> site
> >>>> for setting up gnome.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Tom Masterson
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> >>> 
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