[orca-list] should braille always be active?

[Peter Rayner <peter rayner lsce ipsl fr>]

I'm having some strange behaviour with orca going silent in things
like oowriter.  
Here is the first part of a voluminous debug.out:

Using speech server factory: orca.espeechfactory
Speech module has been initialized.
Magnification module has NOT been initialized.
SPEECH OUTPUT: 'Welcome to Orca.'
BRAILLE LINE:  'Welcome to Orca.'
     VISIBLE:  'Welcome to Orca.', cursor=0
WARNING: braille bindings unavailable:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/default.py", line 2021, in getBrailleBindings
    self.inputEventHandlers["panBrailleLeftHandler"]
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'brlapi'

NEW SCRIPT: default (module=orca.default)
.....

Now I think I have braille support "not checked" in the orca preferences
dialogue so should I be seeing this?  
thanks in advance
Peter

 

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