[BRLTTY] Only question mark characters when running brltty in ppc ubuntu and ppc debian etch

[Cheryl Homiak]

My status with trying to get brltty to work with the debian etch netinst 
CD now turns out to be the same as that of trying to run brltty in ubuntu. 
With both the debian netinst and ubuntu in x86 versions, I have no problem 
with brltty. When using the corresponding cds for the powerpc 
architecture, brltty does start but then gives me nothing but question 
marks.

with the ubuntu cd I simply booted and then went to a text console and 
typed

brltty -b bl -d ttyUSB0

I could see
brltty 3.7.2
but after that I got the rows of question marks. I could hear the display 
pins changing as I arrowed or typed but all remained question marks.

With the debian etch netinst for powerpc, which is also using brltty 
3.7.2, when I 
tried to get brltty on boot by typing

install brltty=bl,ttyUSB0

I got nothing.
so instead, just to see what would happen, I just hit enter at the boot 
prompt and then switched with alt-f2 and hit enter to be in a console. 
there I typed

brltty -b bl -d ttyUSB0
and hit enter. Brltty 3.7.2 came up but just as on ubuntu in powerpc, I 
then got the rows of question marks. Then when I did alt-f1 to go back to 
the installer, I got

screen not in text mode


does anybody know what is wrong here and is there anything I can do about 
it? Since the x86 versions of these CDs work and the ppc versions don't, 
I'[m assuming it has something to do with running brltty on a CD with ppc 
architecture. If I can solve this, I can very probably accomplish my goal 
of having a dual boot mac mini with debian and macosx.

TIA.


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."