Re: [orca-list] Cannot use my Braille display with Orca... screen not in text mode.

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

Hello Fabrizio,

On Do, Okt 04 2007, Fabrizio Marini wrote:

> 1 - I boot my system and log in as a normal user. Orca starts working 
> and Espeak starts speaking.
> 2 - I type alt+f2 to open the "run application" window, and I type 
> gnomr-terminal to open a terminal window.
> 3 - IN order to launch brltty, I type:
> sudo su
> password
> /bin/brltty -bal -d/dev/ttyS0
>
> Brltty starts, but a few second later, the Braille display shows the 
> "screen not in text mode" message, and stops working.

Brltty only works in text mode terminals, but gnome-terminal runs in a
graphical environment. You can switch on a text console by pressing
ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to the first text console.

Orca is also able to do braille output through brltty's braille
API. Therefore you need to start brltty before orca and activate braille
output in your orca configuration.

cheers

  Henning