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

[Storm Dragon]

Howdy,
To get it working with Orca, first login as root, and chgrp users /etc/brlapi.key
Then, add xbrlapi -q to your startup applications.
Grade 2 won't work with it in Orca as far as I know. When I tried it, it went all weird, random nonsense dots in random cells.
Supposedly that can be fixed by compiling liblouis yourself, but I never really checked into that.
HTH
Storm
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Kendell 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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