<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>We've returned from a longish out of town trip, and I'm now retrying to install <br></div><div>brltty on a new machine. 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Re: Power Braille 80 Rocker Switch Configuration (Dave Mielke)<br><div><br></div><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><br></div>Message: 1<br>Date: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2354_com_zimbra_date"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2355_com_zimbra_date"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2438_com_zimbra_date">Mon, 7 May 2018</span></span></span> 09:58:43 -0400 (EDT)<br>From: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2356_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2357_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2439_com_zimbra_email">wmichaelb@fuse.net</span></span></span><br>To: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2358_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2359_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2440_com_zimbra_email">brltty@brltty.com</span></span></span><br>Subject: [<span id="DWT2361" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2363" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2442" class="ZmSearchResult">BRLTTY</span></span></span>] Power Braille 80 Rocker Switch Configuration<br>Message-ID:<br> <<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2364_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2365_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2443_com_zimbra_email">441511301.45548653.1525701523491.JavaMail.zimbra@fuse.net</span></span></span>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><div><br></div>Hi, I've managed to get my friend's Linux setup to access his Power Braille 80 successfully, <br>and I'm now trying to get the system preferences set up to what he prefers. I have read <br>through the documentation on preferences and set some of them in the config file. Is there <br>a way to reverse the functions of the two rocker bars on the Power Braille 80? I haven't <br>been able to find a configuration entry that controls that preference. 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I have read through the documentation on preferences and set some <br>>of them in the config file.<br><div><br></div>What do you mean by preferences? There are system-wide defaults (that are <br>defined in /etc/<span id="DWT2387" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2389" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2455" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>.conf), and there are user-specific settings (that are <br>stored in /var/lib/<span id="DWT2391" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2395" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2457" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>/<span id="DWT2393" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2397" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2459" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>.prefs). It's the latter - the user-specific <br>settings - that are commonly known as preferences because they can be (and <br>really should be) modified from the braille device itself via <span id="DWT2399" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2401" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2461" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>'s <br>Preferences Menu. There's a way to do it from <span id="DWT2403" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2405" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2463" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>.conf - with the <br>override-preference directive - but that should only be done when absolutely <br>necessary because it undoes changes made within the menu.<br><div><br></div>>Is there a way to reverse the functions of the two rocker bars on the Power <br>>Braille 80? I haven't been able to find a configuration entry that controls <br>>that preference. Thanks!<br><div><br></div>You can do that by editing the key table for the PB80. Assuming a normal <br>install, you should be able to find it at:<br><div><br></div> /etc/<span id="DWT2407" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2409" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2465" class="ZmSearchResult">brltty</span></span></span>/Input/ts/pb80.ktb<br><div><br></div>-- <br>I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2410_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2411_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2466_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="http://Mielke.cc/bible/">http://Mielke.cc/bible/</a></span></span></span><br>Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2412_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2413_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2467_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="http://Mielke.cc/">http://Mielke.cc/</a></span></span></span><br>EMail: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2414_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2415_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2468_com_zimbra_email">Dave@Mielke.cc</span></span></span> | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke<br>Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 |<br><div><br></div><br>------------------------------<br><div><br></div>Subject: Digest Footer<br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>This is a message digest of the <span id="DWT2417" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2419" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2470" class="ZmSearchResult">BRLTTY</span></span></span> mailing list.<br>To post a message, send an e-mail to: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2420_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2421_com_zimbra_email"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2471_com_zimbra_email">BRLTTY@brltty.com</span></span></span><br>For general information, go to: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2422_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2423_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2472_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty">http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty</a></span></span></span><br><div><br></div>------------------------------<br><div><br></div>End of <span id="DWT2425" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2427" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2474" class="ZmSearchResult">BRLTTY</span></span></span> Digest, Vol 14, Issue 95<br>**************************************</div><div>I used the Debian apt tool to install brltty from the debian repository; </div><div>running the brltty command yields a version of 5.4. The </div><div>operating system is Debian Linux 9.4. </div><div>1.) I opened </div><div>/etc/brltty/Input/ts/pb80.ktb </div><div>with nano, and found five lines:<br></div><div>title Power Braille 80<br></div><div>assign routingRight1 81<br></div><div>assign routingRight2 82<br></div><div>assign routingRight3 79<br></div><div>include pb_large.kti<br></div><div>Neither I nor my friend understands what these entries refer to,<br></div><div>and none mentions a rocker switch. What parameters should I </div><div>change to reverse the rocker bar settings? Since I'm seven hours from</div><div>his home in Chicago at the moment and could not connect a PB80</div><div>to test or access the preferences file to see if that preference was there, </div><div>I tried looking in /var/lib/brltty, but did not find brltty.prefs at all. <br></div><div>2.) Also, to insure that the PB80 display starts at boot, I added the lines<br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">braille-driver ts</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">braille-device serial:ttyS0</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">to </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">/etc/brltty.conf. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">Then, per another entry in the documentation, I edited </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">/etc/default/brltty as follows:<br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">ARGUMENTS="-q -b ts -d /dev/ttyS0"<br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">Am I correct in assuming that these changes will automatically</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">start brltty at boot? <br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;">Thanks again for all your support. <br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>