[BRLTTY] brltty 3.8

[Martina Weicht]

Hello,

after doubting whether Braillex slim line displays were supported by 
brltty yet (and asking about it on the Orca mailing list), we succeeded 
in getting it running using brltty 3.8.

We uninstalled brltty 3.7.2 from our Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installation, 
then pretty much stuck to the instructions given at 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille for installing brltty, but also 
installed python-all-dev, libbrlapi1-dev, and python-orca-brlapi-dbg 
packages.

We also used "brltty -t de" rather than "/bin/brltty -bauto 
-d/dev/ttyUSB0" to run brltty.
The latter only produces what seems to be uncontrolled output, rapidly 
switching between the standard message (Braillex EL 2D-80s Rev 124) and 
a mess of special characters (|, @,...).

Unfortunately we still need to restart brltty every time after startup 
and with both braille displays (The other one is a HandyTech Braille 
Star 40) using:
sudo killall brltty
sudo brltty -t de
Why is that?

One more thing: Does brltty support the use of the vertical display?

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards,
Martina

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