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

[Hermann]

On 04.09.2008 at 12:46:11 Labrador <labrad0r at edpnet.be> wrote:
[...]
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that's the way I try systematically to resolve the problem of access,
> by adding the ssh and openssh-server at the target pc or laptop, then
> logging into my account (but you need a sighted person to read the IP of
> that remote machine, or you +/- know what address your router uses to give
> to the first and only dynamic machine); after that you are user or sudo and
> can go ahead with the fix.
>
What happens when you plug your braille display to the laptop and start
Ubuntu without using your SSH-connection of the other PC? Is your
display recognized by the system? Can you start brltty from a text
terminal without that U/X etc. question?
I guess your problems come from your way to log into your laptop, or do I
missunderstand something?

>> [...]
>> > 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? 
>
> text-table de  was the one I needed.
>
>>Provided it's French, then put in your brltty.conf:
>> text-table fr_FR
>
> Well now about this I'd like to see it implemented in the installer so that
> it follow the locale of the first installation (account), so that you can
> create a stable system around this problem; examples:
> - at the North (flemish part) of Belgium where I live, we use the de table,
> while the Brussels people and the South (FR-language part) uses fr_FR;
> and ..... a locale is always defined as mm_NN, so the idea should be :
> if locale = nl_BE then default table for brailel should be de, if locale =
> fr_BE or fr_FR then default braille table should be fr_FR.
>
Which installer do you mean? I guess the one of brltty? I think that's a
bit difficault, since a lot of locales exist with two or more possible
languages (for example think of India); how to implement such a script?
If no table is specified, brltty starts always with the US table.
BTW.: I found that there is no Dutch table; such a table would perhaps
better fit for the Netherlands and the Flemish part of belgium.
Hermann