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

[Daniel Dalton]

Did you use the  -t option?
(Don't you need to set the braille code)?
so it should be either:
from a terminal
as root
brltty -b braille_display -d /dev/port -t en_us
Or in the debian installer:
install brltty =what_display, port, en_us


On 9/12/2007 2:23 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> 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.
> 
>