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

[Devin Prater]

You have to chown /etc/brltty.key, I think that's the right dir. Once that's done, it should work. You may have to restart orca though. 

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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 3:06 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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