[orca-list] Orca xterm braille Eclipse (update)



Hello All,

 

I took the advice of the group to go from Redhat to Fedora. Now I’m running with

Fedora 18

Orca 3.6.3

gnome-terminal 3.6.1

brltty 4.3

Braille device freedomscientific focus 80

 

And the problem is essentially the same. I can hear Orca speak the lines, I see the “Braille monitor” display the spoken word. If I start a local gnome-terminal Orca speaks the command lines fine. But I still get no action from the Braille device when in graphic mode (in command mode “init 3” it does work!)

 

I assume brltty is using the wrong (?) drivers or something, so I started it with the debug output (more information as this but I don’t see anything obviously wrong):

/usr/bin/brltty -f /etc/brltty.conf -l 7 -e --no-daemon

BRLTTY 4.3 rev 5477 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]

brltty: Working Directory: /etc/systemd/system

brltty: Writable Directory: /var/run/brltty

brltty: Configuration File: /etc/brltty.conf

brltty: Preferences File: brltty.prefs

brltty: checking braille device: usb:

brltty: checking for braille driver: fs

brltty: initializing braille driver: fs -> usb:

brltty: verifying file system path: usbfs: /dev/bus/usb

brlttybrltty: USBFS Root: /dev/bus/usb

: socket 1 established (fd 7)

brltty: linking local socket lock: File exists

brltty: socket 0 established (fd 6)

brltty: USB: testing: vendor=1D6B product=0003

brltty: USB: testing: vendor=0F4E product=0112

brltty: USB: ept=82 dir=in xfr=blk pkt=64 ivl=0ms

brltty: USB: ept=01 dir=out xfr=blk pkt=64 ivl=0ms

brltty: USB Language: 409

brltty: USB: Manufacturer Name: Freedom Scientific

brltty: USB: Product Description: Focus 2

brltty: Manufacturer: FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC

brltty: Model: Focus 80

brltty: Firmware: 3.70

brltty: Braille Driver: fs [FreedomScientific]

brltty: FreedomScientific Braille Driver:

brltty: Braille Device: usb:

brltty: Old Preferences File: /etc/brltty-fs.prefs

brltty: cannot open file: /etc/brltty-fs.prefs: No such file or directory

brltty: regions: text=0.80 status=0.0

brltty: no autodetectable speech drivers

brltty: checking for speech driver: no

brltty: initializing speech driver: no

brltty: Speech Driver: no [NoSpeech]

brltty: NoSpeech Speech Driver:

brltty: Speech Input: none

brltty: Screen Font Map Size: 303

brltty: VGA Character Count: 256(small)

brltty: attributes masks: font=0000 unshifted=FF00 shifted=0000

brltty: beeper disabled

 

 

And that is the last line. The preference file /etc/brltty-fs.prefs does not exists (is that a problem?)

 

 

Previous message:

 

I have a question regarding the use of a Braille device in the combination with an xterm sessions of eclipe. The situation is as follows: A colleague of mine is blind and depends on a freedomscientific focus 80 Braille device. He works normally with windows and that works reasonable. But for a new application he needs to use eclipse on a Linux box. First we tried to simply use exceed on his PC. Visually that works, he gets the screen, but Jaws (his screen reader package) only reports a blank screen, no information on what is on the screen.

We were told that it should work better if you use a Linux (gnome) desktop. So we installed Linux (RHEL 6) and activated Orca to see if that would work. But now I’m running into several problems. First of all, the Braille device doesn’t work in graphical mode (the Orca Braille monitor shows the correct data, but the device doesn’t). If I start the Linux box in non-graphical mode the Braille device works and shows the correct information. But as I explained we need the graphical interface.

 

Next problem I have is when I display an xterm session on the Linux box Orca doesn’t show any information from inside the xterminal (the Braille monitor stays blank).

 

The big question is, does the combination xterm – Braille device work at all? Has anybody such a combination running? And the next question would be, how did they get it to work.

 

If you need more information, just ask …

 

PS I use brltty as Braille device driver.

 


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