[BRLTTY] Trying to get the BRLTTY to work with NVDA on a Windows 7 machine

[Samuel Thibault]

Hlynur Hreinsson, le Thu 24 Jun 2010 09:52:27 +0000, a écrit :
> I had already installed the manufacturers drivers, but I have tried both the
> USB option as well as the COM port option in the BRLTTY Configure window.
> 
> Neither seem to work, I´m afraid.

Do you get any error?  Did you try to get a log as documented in the
README.first.txt file?

> Got a hint that I should try running BRLTTY without NVDA, to see if I could get
> any braille on the display that way.

Yes, no need to test all the layers at the same time :)

> I´m a little confused here, is braille supposed to be displayed when in the
> configure screen of BRLTTY?

No, only after that, when you start it.

> How could I produce braille on the screen using just BRLTTY?

When brltty starts, it prints its version.  It is also able to read text
consoles.

Samuel