[BRLTTY] mysterious... Fup: Re: braille doesn't work at all under Ubuntu 8.04.1

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Labrador on 2008/09/04 at 14:30 +0200]

>But here is the brltty.conf.orig I see in /etc:
>
># Created by /lib/brltty/brltty.sh
>braille-driver al
>braille-device serial:ttyUSBx
>
>I suppose the problem is there, 

Yes. The device qualifier is serial:, which tells brltty to use serial I/O. The 
device is ttyUSBx (was it x or 0). That's specifying a device which would be 
used were you using a USB-serial adapter. So I'd say that Ubuntu's 
understanding of what USB means is incorrect. Perhaps it should be offering two 
options, i.e. one for direct USB and one for using a USB-serial adapter.

>but I still can't understand what dropped that absurd content into the .orig 
>brltty.conf?

The first line says "Created by /lib/brltty/brltty.sh", so the answer to your 
question is the Ubuntu script "/lib/brltty/brltty.sh".

>Maybe I must purge then reinstall brltty, hoping it will ask me again for
>entering the display type and device: 

No, don't go through all the trouble of trying that. It isn't brltty which is 
causing your problem. It's the Ubuntu configuration script 
"/lib/brltty/brltty.sh".

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