Re: [orca-list] grade 2 braille again

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Daniel:

I tested this with Orca from trunk, liblouis 1.5.2, and BrlTTY 3.9 on my 
OpenSolaris 2008.11 b109 box (GNOME 2.24.2) using the UEBC-g2.ctb table. 
 These are the versions of liblouis and BrlTTY that we test with and 
use on OpenSolaris.  Being a bit more on the conservative side, we also 
try make sure they function properly before unleashing them on 
unsuspecting users.  :-)  Things seemed to work fine and as expected. 
No crashes.

So, this tells me Orca is probably doing the right thing and that a bug 
or backwards incompatibility might have been introduced in whatever 
version of liblouis or BrlTTY you might be using.  Can you try going to 
liblouis 1.5.2 and BrlTTY 3.9 and see if things work for you?

In addition, the inclusion of /usr/local in the places where things have 
been installed seems to indicate it might be possible that you 
accidentally built/installed something to a potentially unexpected 
place, leaving your system in an unexpected state.

Will

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:08:59PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Daniel:
>
> Hi Will,
>
> > If you run orca from the command line, do you get any stack traces that  
> > appear?  
>
> Here is what I get with brltty from svn (r4346):
> BrlAPI exception: Invalid packet on Write request of size 93 (76 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 23)
> You may wish to add the -ldebug option to the brltty command line in order to get additional information in 
> the system log
>
> And with brltty 3.10 dev from debian:
>
> BrlAPI exception: Invalid packet on Write request of size 93 (76 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 23)
> You may wish to add the -ldebug option to the brltty command line in order to get additional information in 
> the system log
>
> Looks to me as the same thing... So, I'm not sure since brltty from
> debian should be quite stable... (I got this by redirecting to a file:
> orca > /tmp/file 2>&1) if that is important.
>
> BTW, ueb from within brltty works fine on consoles.
> (contracted braille)
>
> > In addition, I'm guessing you experience this problem *only* if  
> > you're using contracted braille.  Is that right?
>
> That's correct!
>
> Thanks very much for your reply,
>
> Daniel.