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

[Donald Raikes <don draikes com>]

Janina,

Originally I installed from the brltty-3.7.2-1.i386.rpm, and later
pulled the updated brltty from svn and built it.

A couple of days ago I found the brlapi-0.4.1-1.i386.rpm and attempted
to install it, but was given the message that a newer version of the
brlapi already was installed.
I ran 

rpm -qa | grep -i 'brlapi'
and got a response taht brlapi-0.5.0 was installed.

I just used rpm to remove brltty 3.7.2, and then re-installed it from
the rpm.
I ran yum update and it pulled brltty-3.7.2-1.fc6.rpm from the
development repository.

rpm now shows that Ihave brlapi 0.4.1 installed, but I am still getting
the crashes with orca and braille.
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:05 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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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