[BRLTTY] Can this be done?

[Tom Masterson]

Ok I have attached the log from the brltty -bal -dserial:rfcomm0 -ldebug

the bluetooth settings on the bc640 are:
Bluetooth Status: disconnected
Set Bluetooth pairable
Bluetooth: on
Bluetooth pin: 0000
BLuetooth name: ALVA BC640

Tom

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Tom Masterson on 2011/08/15 at 18:01 -0700]
>
>> I tried binding rfcomm0 to the device and it says it bound it just ine but
>> when I try brltty -dserial:rfcomm0 I get a disconnect on the display and what
>> is in the attached log.
>
> Your log stops early. Serial port device autodetection probably was taking a
> long time so you didn't realize it wasn't finished yet. Please specify the
> actual driver explicitly (with -bal) and try again.
>
>> I am seriously beginning to think my bluetoogh is not working correctly
>> although it appears to be just fine.  I have never worked with a bluetooth
>> dongle on linux and I have followed what procedures there are on the ubuntu
>> site to install get it working and it finds the device or at least appears to
>> find it.
>
> That's hard for us to comment on without knowing exactly what you did.
>
> By the way: Are you sure that Bluetooth is properly configured on your BC640?
> There are a number of relevant settings. If you can tell us what's set to what
> in its menu, we'll have a better idea.
>
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Aug 15 18:50:52 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: checking braille device: serial:rfcomm0
Aug 15 18:50:52 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: checking for braille driver: al
Aug 15 18:50:52 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: initializing braille driver: al -> serial:rfcomm0
Aug 15 18:50:56 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: serial device opened: /dev/rfcomm0: fd=9
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: timeout after 200 milliseconds
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: last message repeated 2 times
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: braille driver initialization failed: al -> serial:rfcomm0
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: braille driver not found
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: Braille Display Dimensions: 1 row, 80 columns
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: regions: text=0.80 status=0.0
Aug 15 18:50:57 tom-laptop brltty[5188]: shifts: full=80 half=40 vertical=5