[BRLTTY] Brltty died while trying to work with it in vmware fusion

[Cheryl Homiak]

I'm only posting this because I wondered if anybody else had anything like 
this happen and if so, were you able to do anything about it.

I had installed the newest debian on vmware fusion; as with the other 
debian package and ubuntu, the installation worked beautifully except for 
brltty. Throughout the installation the display made a noise, probably 
when data was coming through rapidly, not a constant noise but an 
intermitent squawk (wish I could find a more definite description). I 
could read lines of braille but when I'd use the advance bar it was hard 
to get to other lines and i'd get percents and numbers and other 
characters. Anyway, this of course continued after installation. Really 
too bad since it installs so easily and nicely with vmware fusion.

However, accessing the preferences menu was working somewhat better than 
on the earlier installation although items were being skipped and 
sometimes I had to press the spacebar more than once to change the value. 
I had saved and closed but wanted to change something else so did chord-25 
again. While trying to change the text table my braillelite suddenly went 
dead. I figured it was just the battery but plugging it in didn't fix 
the problem. In fact I've had it plugged in all night now and it still 
isn't working; it usually makes a little clicking sound like it's coming 
to life when I turn it on but then it stops and the display goes dead 
without any actual words having formed. I have another braillelite whose 
battery is dead but it still works when plugged in so what this 
braillelite is doing seems rather ominous to me. Has anybody else had this 
happen either in brltty or with some other program? I suspect it is going 
to have to go to Freedom Scientific though I could try a battery from 
Batteries Plus first; of course if somehow the cells got dammaged I won't 
be able to afford to fix it. All my braillelites were used before I got 
them so I know eventually each one is either going to become unrepairable 
or exceed what I can afford so while i'm not happy about the possibility I 
know it's just a buil-in hazard. If anybody has had this kind of sudden 
stoppage and was able to solve it, please let me know.

Thanks.



-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."