[BRLTTY] USB and serial/USB converter

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le Fri 27 Jun 2008 13:55:24 +0200, a écrit :
> I have to say, my gut reaction is that I am against such a change.

I have to say that mine was the same.

The problem is that a few weeks ago I've seen beginners (I mean braille
device beginners, not linux beginners) trying to configure BRLTTY and
failed because of that problem, and it looked like nothing let them
understand the difference between them.  It is possibly just a problem
of documentation, maybe the attached patch would be enough.

Samuel
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--- Documents/brltty.conf.in	(r?vision 3729)
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@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 #braille-device	usb:		# First USB device matching braille driver.
 #braille-device	usb:nnnnn	# Specific USB device by serial number.
 #braille-device	bluetooth:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx	# Specific bluetooth device by address.
+#
+# NOTE: If the device is connected through a serial-to-USB adapter,
+# braille-device usb: will not work, braille-device has to be set to something
+# like serial:ttyUSB0, see the kernel messages on device plug to get the exact
+# device name.
 
 # The release-device directive specifies whether or not the device to which the
 # braille display is connected is to be released when the current screen or