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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Just to make sure we're all on the same page: I believe the problem is
that incompatible changes were made to the Python bindings for BrlAPI
0.5.0 between December 17 and now.  Since BrlAPI 0.5.0 is still under
development, it is an annoyance, but still OK, for the BrlAPI developers
to do this.  

I've been trying to track the BrlAPI 0.5.0 development as fast as I can,
checking code into the Orca v2.17.* (unstable) code base as I go.  I
have a change ready to go back into the code base, but there's one last
problem I'd like to resolve before doing so.  That last problem is the
fact that cursor routing keys no longer seem to get sent to Orca by
BrlTTY/BrlAPI, and I have a question into the BrlTTY/BrlAPI folks on
this.

Will 


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:50 -0700, Donald Raikes wrote:
> 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 to install it, but was given the message that a newer version of the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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