[BRLTTY] BrlTTY 3.10 and a USB display in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Fri Oct 3 23:08:57 EDT 2008


On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:59:37PM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> I happen to have access to a few USB braille displays this weekened. I am trying to get BrlTTY to make use a known working display, with no luck. Attempting to run BrlTTY with "/lib/brltty/brltty.sh -b fs -d usb -e -n", I got the following:
> 
> luke at barbiton:~$ sudo /lib/brltty/brltty.sh -b fs -d usb -n -e
> BRLTTY 3.10 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]
> brltty: Linux Screen Driver:
> brltty: BrlAPI Server: release 0.5.2
> brltty: kernel module not installed: pcspkr
> brltty: cannot open serial device: /dev/usb: Is a directory

I think it has to be usb: (with a colon).

However, since USB is the default, just running the brltty executable should
detect the display.



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