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

[Andor Demarteau]

dear §Cheryl,

I had a big issue on vmware fusion 2.0 and ubuntu 8.10 brltty 3.10 and 
both my displays not giving any key feedback.
I upgraded to the latest svn snapshot, which did fix this issue for my 
baum varioconnect, but not the tieman voyager display.

(apart from the fact that brltty isn't autostarted on boot).

Maybe installing the latest svn development version may help for you as 
well.

kind regards,
Andor

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

 > 
 > 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.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 

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