Re: Orca cross-post: braille not working with orca 2.17.4

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Willie Walker writes:
> Hi Don:
>
> I'm going to guess this problem might be due to the fact that the build
> of BrlTTY will not build the Python bindings for BrlAPI unless pyrex is
> installed.  You can test to see if the Python bindings for BrlAPI are
> installed by doing the following from inside the python shell (to enter
> the python shell, just type "python" at a command line prompt):
>
> python -c "import brlapi"
>
> If this issues an error, then the Python bindings for BrlAPI were not
> built or installed as part of the BrlTTY build and you probably need to
> install pyrex on your machine.

Janina here ...

I would be interested to know whether you installed from rpms, if this
is the case. You should have a brlapi rpm in addition to orca and
brltty.

> Hope this helps,
>
> Will
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:07 -0700, Donald Raikes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for the cross-posting, but Ihave been trying to get this to work
> > for a couple of weeks, and so far no success.
> >
> > I have fedora core 6 kernel 2.6.18-1.2868fc6 installed, and have the
> > latest brltty from svn running.
> >
> > I upgraded to orca 2.17.4, although this problem existed in earlier
> > versions as well.
> >
> > I am unable to get my alva satellite display to work with orca.
> > I have tried having brltty start on boot of the system, then starting
> > orca, but no braille in gnome.
> > if I don't start the brltty before login, how do I know when it is ready
> > for me to login?
> >
> > I am a very "visual" learner, and work best with a combination of speech
> > and braille output, so it is very important for me to get this working
> > ASAP.
> >
> > Thanks for any tips.
> >
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