[BRLTTY] Using brltty with OpenBSD 5.1

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Aug 26 14:14:21 EDT 2012


2012/8/13, Emanuel Helms <ehelms89 at googlemail.com>:
> can you tell me how I can use brltty with OpenBSD? I have installed
> OpenBSD 5.1 AMD64 on my Lenovo notebook. Then I have installed the
> binary packages of brltty(3.6) and screen-shm. To use my Papenmeier
> Braillex EL 40s I have configured the example brltty.conf and copied
> it to /etc/.
>
> With the -d argument I have tested out all /dev/cua* and
> /dev/usb*devices but the brailledisplay doesn't show anything. Also
> the argument -d usb: does not work. I always started brltty in a
> screen session.

Well, I don't think there are OpenBSD users here, so you'll be quite on
your own.  At best, post the debug logs (pass -l debug to brltty) so we
can have a look at errors messages if any.

Samuel


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