Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Hi Cheryl.  For the PPC live CD, I *believe* you want "live nofb".  

As for how you can know for sure you're there:   What I noticed on my
iMac is that the CD spins quite a bit and then stops.  The point at
which it stops and remains quiet is the point at which you are at the
boot prompt.  <smiles and shrugs>  

Yesterday I purchased a USB to serial adapter and was able to use my
Braille Lite 2000 with Emacspeak as a speech synthesizer -- something I
mention only in light of the following:  Getting brltty working with the
Braille Lite as a USB device has been seemingly random.  I did
successfully manage to do so a couple of times, both on my PC and on my
Mac.  However, most of the time I get the following error:

/drivers/usb/serial/mct_0232.c: MCT USB-RS232 unsupported baudrate
request 0x0 using default of 9600.

This repeats until I kill the process, at which point the Braille Lite
announces that it's now waiting on the serial device.  

I have not yet figured out what I did differently on the occasions when
I did get it working.  However, using the nofb option -- assuming "live
nofb" is the correct way of doing so -- seems to make no difference.  

Good luck!  And please let me know if you figure it out.
Joanie


On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 00:45 -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Dave Mielke thinks my problem with question marks on the braille  
> display when I try to start brltty using my usb-to-serial cable with  
> the powerpc live cd may be one that has been resolved in the latest  
> repository version of brltty. But he suggested that instead of trying  
> to modify the iso i'm using I try using nofb in the boot parameters.  
> would I do
> 
> ubuntu nofb
> at the boot prompt. Also is there any way I can know for sure that I  
> am at the boot prompt?
> 
> Tia.
>