[BRLTTY] new user with problems

[S. Massy]

Hello,

I have no experience with Braillelite devices, so can't help there. This
said, I find it strange that you need to edit a header file (haven't
needed to do that in about a decade): what version of brltty are you
using? Also, beware of typos in command-line, they can be an absolute
bane while trying to set up braille output, at least they have been for
me at times.

With a sound default of brltty installed, I'm pretty sure all you should
need to do is:
# brltty -b bl -d /dev/ttyS0 -t nabcc

I'm sure Braillelite users will fill in the details. 

hth,
S.M.




On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:40:07PM -0600, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi, I installed brltty on arch with the following arguments:
> ./configure --with-braille-driver=bl --with-device+/dev/ttS0
> For a braille lite 18.
> I edited the braille.h so that it looks like this:
> /*
> 
> * BRLTTY - A background process providing access to the console screen (when in
> 
> * text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display.
> 
> *
> 
> * Copyright (C) 1995-2011 by The BRLTTY Developers.
> 
> *
> 
> * BRLTTY comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> 
> *
> 
> * This is free software, placed under the terms of the
> 
> * GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software
> 
> * Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
> 
> * later version. Please see the file LICENSE-GPL for details.
> 
> *
> 
> * Web Page: http://mielke.cc/brltty/
> 
> *
> 
> * This software is maintained by Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>.
> 
> */
> 
> /* BrailleLite/braille.h - Configurable definitions for the Braille Lite driver
> 
> * N. Nair, 6 September 1998
> 
> *
> 
> * Edit as necessary for your system.
> 
> */
> 
> /* used by speech.c */
> 
> #include "io_serial.h"
> 
> extern SerialDevice *BL_serialDevice;
> 
> /* We always expect 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. */
> 
> /* Select baudrate to use */
> 
> #define BAUDRATE 9600
> 
> //#define BAUDRATE 38400
> 
> /* Define the following for dots to character mapping for input to use 
> 
> the same (user-defined) table as is used for output, instead of the
> 
> hard-coded US table. */
> 
> #define USE_TEXTTRANS
> 
> I set the baud rate on the blt to 9600 and I ran this command::
> brltty=bl,ttS0,en_US
> And I didn't see anything. Did I forget something?

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