[BRLTTY] Default braille device and driver.

[Scott Berry]

Hi Dave,

In my opinion seeing as how in Redhat I had trouble getting the 
Pacmate driver to do it's thing.  I support the driver being auto as 
soon as feasible.  I also think if not auto then usb with the 
capability of the braille display to some how proclaim itself to 
Brltty even if it is just a simple usb connection once Brltty sees 
this it will think "Ah you are here."



At 04:56 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote:
>What do you all think about the selection of the default braille device and
>driver? Right now, as has been the case since the outset, the 
>default device is
>the primary serial port. There's no default driver if none are built in, else
>it's the first driver in the list passed to the --with-braille-driver=
>configure option.
>
>BRLTTY now supports the autodetection of several braille displays. I'm
>beginning to think, therefore, that the time has come to switch the default
>driver to auto. This could certainly easily be the case if no 
>drivers are built
>in since there's no current default driver in that case anyway. What 
>about when
>drivers are built in? One thing to keep in mind is that there are 
>those who may
>build drivers in but who also have more than one display. It'd sure be
>convenient for them if the default, even in that case, were auto.
>
>I don't personally like the concept of a default serial port because it could
>easily mean that unexpected data is sent to some other unsuspecting device
>which happens to be connected to it at the time. There was a case with
>Gnopernicus a few months ago where a lady's speech synthesizer became unusable
>after data for some other speech synthesizer or braille display (I can't
>remember which) was sent to it. I believe it was subsequently 
>determined by the
>manufacturer that her synthesizer was inadvertently put into firmware upgrade
>mode. One proposal for the default device, which I'll put on the table to get
>the discussion going, is to use usb: if the driver supports USB, and to revert
>back to the primary serial port if it doesn't.
>
>One more thing I'd like to discuss regarding this topic is if this change
>should be made in 3.7 or if it should wait for 3.8.
>
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