[BRLTTY] Only question mark characters when running brltty inppc ubuntu and ppc debian etch

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks Samuel.

I have discovered few more things.

1. When booting both ubuntu and the debian netinst cd, my mac mini stops and 
I must hit enter to continue. It doesn't do this with a macosx install cd. I 
don't have any way of knowing for sure if this is just a straight "This 
isn't a mac cd; do you want to continue" type of pause or if there are 
options. I'll try to find out from a mac list.  This is why I was at first 
unable to bring up anything at boot from brltty at all; I was trying to type 
before the actual boot prompt for the cd was up.


2. I finally did the right combination of words in a search and found the 
posts from gnome-accessibility when I tried to get the ubuntu cd working a 
little over a year ago. Dave suggested using nofb at boot. I tried this with 
the debian etch installer and while it gave me more variety of symbols it 
still didn't give me any recognizable language.

3. I can get into the brltty configuration and that reads fine but of course 
when I exit the configuration I return to the same symbols.

4. I now see that I'm getting other symbols besides question marks; I'm 
getting a lot of p's and other symbols that have dots 7 and 8 in them but 
predominantly probably p's and question marks.

5. The display works in the sense that I can move the advance bars and I 
hear the pins go up and down somewhat; it's just the characters I'm getting 
that are all wrong but it's not the kind of thing you'd see from a wrong 
table being loaded as far as I can tell.

Thanks again.




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Cheryl

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there will your heart be also."