[BRLTTY] Bug: Freedom Scientific driver broken in current git head for Focus Blue

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

 > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2015/08/30 at 22:10 +0300]

>>I have tried hacking with brltty and I noticed that in the current git head
>>version the Freedom Scientific driver is broken.
>>
>>Symptoms: BRLTTY no more recognizes the Gdf and Wheel key names on Focus Blue
>>(referred to as small model in BRLTTY sources).
>>
>>Reason:
>>In brltty/Drivers/Braille/FreedomScientific/braille.c on line 125 BRLTTY
>>states that Focus Small models have Nav keys which are defined to have the
>>same key codes as Wheel keys in the key tables in the same file (line 59).
>>Changing the key configuration to refer to ...Selector instead of ...Gdf and
>>...Nav instead of ...Wheel does not help - these names aren't recognized either.

 > You're either trying to use an older brltty with newer tables or a newer brltty 
 > with older tables.

That must have happened, sorry for spamming. I must have made a mistake, since
now when I tested it again, it all works fine. I used Arch Linux packaging
tools to make a custom package, and probably something went wrong durint the
installation.

Wish you all lovely autumn!

-- 
Aura