[BRLTTY] Question about brltty on windows and operation withother screen readers

[Michael Whapples]

The ALVA 544t has a physical serial port and my laptop has a serial port, so 
I could use brltty through serial and window-eyes through USB (this setup 
would require both the USB and serial cables connected if I want to use 
brltty whilst being free of mains power connections). Also this fix would 
require me to remember to switch the connector the ALVA listens on, which is 
simple enough, just something else to forget.

Regarding libbraille, I never got my ALVA working through USB, although 
Samuel mentioned about the libusb dll provided with libbraille not working, 
so may be that caused problems when I used libbraille.

Michael whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Teh" <jamie at jantrid.net>
To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." 
<brltty at mielke.cc>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Question about brltty on windows and operation 
withother screen readers


On 2/11/2008 8:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Michael Whapples, le Sat 01 Nov 2008 22:04:10 -0000, a écrit :
>> After running uninstall.bat, the brltty terminated message showed,
>> but I could not get window-eyes to use my braille display
> I guess libusb-win32 somehow doesn't release the device, even on
> termination.
I have a lot of nasty problems like this with libusb-win32 and BRLTTY.
The worst is that if I unplug my display while BRLTTY is running, it
causes any further USB device attachment/removal to simply do nothing.
It's like it causes USB to lock up. Does anyone know if libbraille
exhibits the same issues?

Does your display emulate a serial port for other screen readers? If so,
you could try configuring BRLTTY to use that emulated serial port. I do
this with my Brailliant and it allows other screen readers to use the
display as it should. I haven't tried libusb-win32 in a while.

-- 
James Teh
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