[BRLTTY] having trouble with brltty.conf and how to make Brltty work in cosole and X-windows modes
Mario Lang
mlang at delysid.org
Mon Oct 6 04:32:44 EDT 2008
Scott Berry <sberry at northlc.com> writes:
> I have a Power Braille 80 braille display. I am trying to configure in
> the "/etc/brltty.conf" file that I want it too load the braille display
> on "/dev/ttyUSB)" because I have a usb to serial converter. But I am
> having trouble getting the syntax correct for the device so that it will
> load properly. I think in the device directives there should be an
> example showing how to actually set up a device like this.
There is an example:
braille-device serial:ttyS0 # First serial device.
Just replace ttyS0 by ttyUSB0.
A tip regarding the PowerBraille and USB-to-serial adaptors: The PowerBraille
uses hardware flow control in a somewhat strange way which can lead to
it not working with certain USB-to-serial adaptors. If it doesn't work
with your current adaptor, make sure to try a different brand before giving up.
> I could not quite understand what the format was.
Every device specifier should be prefixed by a bus type (serial, usb,
bluetooth), followed by a colon and a string which specifies the
device to use. In case of serial, this string just names
a device file relative to /dev, in case of usb this string usually
specifies a device serial number (in case you have several
USB displays connected), and in case of bluetooth, this
specifies the bluetooth address of your remote device.
> Secondly, I want to use Brltty in both console and X-Windows for Orca.
> How would I set this up properly in the "brltty.conf" file?
If you are using a Debian package of BRLTTY, Orca should
just work out of the box, you dont need to configure anything in
/etc/brltty.conf to make BrlAPI clients work.
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