Re: [orca-list] problem with brltty and Open Solaris

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
To explain about the key file for authentication, you just need a
file /etc/brlapi.key which just needs some contents. Now all you need to
do is change the permissions to allow only the users you wish to use
brltty's api (brlapi). For example if you only want some people to
access it, create a group "brltty" and change the group
of /etc/brlapi.key to "brltty", change the permissions to -rw-r----- and
add the users who should be able to use it to the group "brltty". If you
should want to let anyone access it, set the permissions to -rw-r--r--.

As others have said, if you get some message (even if it is not the text
from the screen) appear on your braille display then brltty is running
and it is problems with orca successfully using brltty through brlapi.
If you got no error with your python command to import brlapi python
bindings then it is going to be a problem with the authentication and if
you follow the above (or tell brltty not to use any authentication) then
it should work.

From
Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 08:06 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> I use OpenSolaris with a Baum Vario 40 and a USB-to-serial dongle.  The 
> OpenSolaris information at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille reflects 
> what I do on OpenSolaris to get the display working.
>
> > With Open Solaris i have tried to start Brltty with and without a SU Root with 
> > the only succes that the display gives the message No Screen.
>
> This is probably actually good news -- it looks like BrlTTY is actually 
> working, but Orca is not able to connect to it.  This could be that 
> either the Python bindings are not installed or the BrlAPI permissions 
> won't let Orca get to the display.
>
> > For Brltty i have tried the following commands in the Gnome-Terminal:
> >
> > brltty -bvo -xno -p usb: -A -n keyfile=none
>
>  From the page above, I use the following command on OpenSolaris:
>
>    brltty -d /dev/term/0 -bauto -xno -p none -A auth=none -n
>
> You might want to try adding -A auth=none to your command line.  Based 
> on a 'man brltty', I'm also not quite sure "-p usb:" is the right thing 
> to be doing:  "-p" is for setting up the audio device.
>
> > To check the bindings of Python i have used the folloging command:
> >
> > python -c "import brlapi"
>
> If this produces no errors, then the lack of Python bindings for BrlAPI 
> is probably not the problem.  I suspect it might be the "-A auth=none" 
> thing.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Will