[BRLTTY] Alva BC640 question

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Tom Masterson on 2011/10/01 at 10:13 -0700]

>It appears to be working fine but I can't tell for sure using
>run-brltty as for some reason it doesn't seem to find the key tables
>and some of the key combinations like the one for going to the top of
>the scree dont' work (which I use fairly often).  Basically the thumb
>keys work but the smartpad keys are not resonding.  Haven't checked
>the etouch keys as I don't really use those very often.  

I suspect it's actually working properly. What you probably weren't aware of is 
that we redid several key bindings so that all of the important ones wouldn't 
need the smartpad. This was done in order to offer better support for the 
USB640 model which doesn't have one. To go to the top/bottom of the screen, for 
example, you now should use ThumbLeft + ThumbUp/ThumbDown.

>THe braille keyboard appears to be working relatively well.

Please check it out as thoroughly as possible, including the ctrl,alt,enter 
keys. The Windows key isn't currently bound to anything.

As you may have discovered, the keyboard combinations for the special keys 
(arrow keys, page up/down. function keys, home/end, insert/delete, etc) aren't 
defined yet (because I don't know what they're supposed to be). It'd be great 
if you could give me a list.

Do you think you might be able to give Bluetooth a try soon? As you're probably 
aware, I'm planning on releasing brltty-4.3 in nine days (Monday, October 10). 
I'd kind of like to be sure it's working by then. :-)

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