[BRLTTY] braille doesn't work at all under Ubuntu 8.04.1

[Hermann]

On 03.09.2008 at 22:41:02 Labrador <labrad0r at edpnet.be> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:18:54PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> ...
>> The braille-device operand is bad. Maybe Ubuntu's /lib/brltty/brltty.sh needs 
>> fixing. That line should be as follows:
>> 
>>    braille-device usb:
>
> OK, this is what I tested:
>
> becoming su then
> brltty -b al -d usb:
> (not USB:)
>
> IT WORX!
>
> But when I put "usb:" asis without quotes in brltty.conf, Ubuntu still asks
> me for pressing S / U / B / X while booting up, hm a very annoying problem
> for a blind person.
>
I never faced this, so don't know what's going on here. Do you login
directly from your laptop or via another PC; you mentioned a Debian PC.
[...]
> Now I only have to resolve 2 problems:
> puting another translation table in my config, no one line about it...
> and the persistent question at boot time...
>
Which table? Provided it's French, then put in your brltty.conf:
text-table fr_FR
Hermann