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. This message and attachment(s) are intended solely for use by the addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or agent thereof responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and with a 'reply' message. Thank you for your co-operation. |