[BRLTTY] BRLTTY for Cygwin

Lars Bjørndal lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no
Thu Aug 4 14:32:59 EDT 2005


Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Lars Bjørndal, le Thu 04 Aug 2005 16:08:03 +0200, a écrit :
>> I have still problems with brltty for cygwin with Braille Star 40. I
>> did:
>> 
>>         brltty -b ht -d /dev/ttyS0 -e -l debug 2>errors.txt
>
> /dev/ttyS0 doesn't exist in cygwin. Just use the usual windows name:
>
> brltty -b ht -d com1 -e -l debug 2>errors.txt

Here is the result, in errors.txt:

brltty.exe: BRLTTY 3.7pre1
brltty.exe: Copyright (C) 1995-2005 by The BRLTTY Team - all rights reserved.
brltty.exe: Working Directory: /etc/brltty
brltty.exe: Configuration File: /etc/brltty.conf
brltty.exe: Data Directory: /etc/brltty
brltty.exe: Library Directory: /lib/brltty
brltty.exe: Tables Directory: /etc/brltty
brltty.exe: Text Table: text.no-h.tbl
brltty.exe: Attributes Table: attributes.tbl
brltty.exe: Contractions Directory: /etc/brltty
brltty.exe: Contraction Table: none
brltty.exe: Windows Screen Driver
brltty.exe: looking for braille display on 'com1'.
brltty.exe: checking for 'ht' braille display.
brltty.exe: initializing braille driver: ht -> com1
brltty.exe: serial device opened: /dev/com1: fd=3
brltty.exe: Input wait error 2: No such file or directory.
brltty.exe: braille driver initialization failed: ht -> com1
brltty.exe: no braille display found.

And no output was shown on the display, sorry.

Lars


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