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

[Devin Prater]

Orca worked with grade two for me, in Sonar. Just change the contraction table in orca settings. 

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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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