[BRLTTY] minor problems getting brltty to work with an older braille sense

[kendell clark]

hi all
As the subject line says, I've been having minor problems getting brltty
to work with an older braille sense a friend of mine, billy wolf, sent
to me to improve sonar's braille support.  The braille sense uses USB to
interact with the computer, and appears to use a printer style cable.
Square end goes into the braille sense, other end goes into the
computer. I can plug it in, go into the terminal for screen reader mode
and brltty will work with it in the text console, but not when I switch
to the gui. When I do that, brltty displays "screen not in text mode" in
grade 1 and the braille display doesn't work. I've been told I need to
have the at-spi2 screen driver enabled, which I've just done. I've
checked that braille is enabled in orca and the contraction table is set
to en-ueb-g2 so that grade 2 braille works. However, this doesn't seem
to have solved it. I've verified that brlapi.key is world readable. Is
there anything else I should try? I've made sure that brltty autodetects
the display, and no specific driver is selected. The last issue to
report is that grade 2 doesn't seem to work in the text console. I'm
sure this is just a matter of selecting the correct braille table, can
this be set in the brltty.conf file? Sorry for all the questions, I'm
new to actually trying to use brltty as opposed to just configuring it
for others. That's why I asked Billy to send me the display so I could
have some first hand experience.
Thanks
Kendell Clark