[BRLTTY] xbrlapi on Ubuntu 8.04

[Jan Mura]

Hello,

because I've got a problem with Ubuntu too, I'm sending it to this thread.

 I have installed Ubuntu Linux on my notebook.
 And as for my Braille display it just shows :

 A startup problem

 But I found today once it started to run. At the beginning it showed the
 same error but then I found out it runs. But I did nothing to start it.
 I restarted the computer but it just showed the error.

 I have tried to do the same things as in last session. So I run some
 command as root(using sudo), then I tried restart BRLTTY(/et/init.d/brltty
 restart) but nothing happened.
 Before I had Gentoo Linux and I used console only  and it always run
 correctly.
 It is BRLTTY 3.7.
I've got Alva Satellite with USB.

I know it is quite difficult to say something about it because the
 description of a problem is really uncertain.
 But would like to ask if there is some log file for BRLTTY to look in.
Also have found it is not possible to compile my C programs on Ubuntu 
because gcc cannot find the header files. But don't think it has any 
connection with BRLTTY problems.
Anyway I liked Gentoo much more :-)
 Thank you very much

 Jan Mura
 jan.mura at volny.cz



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier BERT" <olivier.bert at terramitica.net>
To: <brltty at mielke.cc>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:20 PM
Subject: [BRLTTY] xbrlapi on Ubuntu 8.04


Hi,

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 a few days ago and since that, xbrlapi doesn't work
properly. When a type a 'a' on the braille keyboard for example, it outputs
a 'q' in the X applications, as if xbrlapi didn't make the appropriate
conversion it usually makes when using a non-US keyboard.

As I don't remember exactly when I updated my brltty SVN trunk for the last
time, the problem could also be due to a recent change in the xbrlapi source
code, even if I am pretty sure that the problem occured after the update of
my Ubuntu system.

I know that Samuel had patched xbrlapi about one year ago to introduce a
mechanism allowing to resolve a brltty keycode to an X keysym for non-US
keyboard layouts, and it wolked perfectly until now.

I really don't know anything about X11 so I haven't tried to debug things
myself. So just tell me what I have to do to help you investigating this 
issue.

Thanks for your help Samuel and others,

-- 
Olivier BERT
Tél: (+33)(0)6 07 69 79 71
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