[orca-list] Braille in Trisquel 7 and resetting a brlsense?

[Dave Hunt <dahunt posteo de>]

Hello, all!

Getting braille display support in Trisquel 8 seemed to be easy. 7 is 
the still-current release, and proving to be harder to get set up.  I 
installed and enabled the brltty service (there is no brltty-udev in 
7).  Orca's braille settings were on, and the unit was in its "terminal 
mode", the correct setting for this application.  After I logged into 
the user session, I had braille support for a while. Now, however, the 
display is stuck saying "terminal mode", and I cannot get the unit back 
to its main menu. With the power on, or off, the display is stuck.  Some 
strange control sequence must have gone down the usb line?  I cannot 
even get to the unit's in-built help to find how to reset.

I know that Vinux (also with packages taken from Ubuntu 14.04, has this 
working on its live medium; I'm missing something.  Trisquel 8 got me 
spoiled.  LOL.


Any ideas?


Dave  H.