[BRLTTY] Only question mark characters when running brltty inppc ubuntu and ppc debian etch
Cheryl Homiak
chomiak7737 at att.net
Sun Dec 9 05:11:48 EST 2007
Thanks Samuel.
I have discovered few more things.
1. When booting both ubuntu and the debian netinst cd, my mac mini stops and
I must hit enter to continue. It doesn't do this with a macosx install cd. I
don't have any way of knowing for sure if this is just a straight "This
isn't a mac cd; do you want to continue" type of pause or if there are
options. I'll try to find out from a mac list. This is why I was at first
unable to bring up anything at boot from brltty at all; I was trying to type
before the actual boot prompt for the cd was up.
2. I finally did the right combination of words in a search and found the
posts from gnome-accessibility when I tried to get the ubuntu cd working a
little over a year ago. Dave suggested using nofb at boot. I tried this with
the debian etch installer and while it gave me more variety of symbols it
still didn't give me any recognizable language.
3. I can get into the brltty configuration and that reads fine but of course
when I exit the configuration I return to the same symbols.
4. I now see that I'm getting other symbols besides question marks; I'm
getting a lot of p's and other symbols that have dots 7 and 8 in them but
predominantly probably p's and question marks.
5. The display works in the sense that I can move the advance bars and I
hear the pins go up and down somewhat; it's just the characters I'm getting
that are all wrong but it's not the kind of thing you'd see from a wrong
table being loaded as far as I can tell.
Thanks again.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."
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