[BRLTTY] Need a little help

[Chris]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.07.2012, 17:11 -0400 schrieb Dave Mielke:
> [quoted lines by Chris on 2012/07/04 at 22:43 +0200]

> >I read in the dokumentation i should run the service as root.
> 
> Yes, brltty should be run as root.


> >If i run the service as root, brltty wont read the "startline"
> 
> Brltty should always write its startup line. Could you verify that there aren't 
> several brlttys running at the same time. Only one should be running.
Brltty write its startupline to the screen if i run sudo brltty. but if i run it as user the startup line will read by speech-dispatcher. if i run it as root not.
> >I activate the keyboardlayout for Laptops in /etc/brltty.conf
> >but it seems that the shortcuts will ignored. i try the desktop layout
> >too to enter the  prefmenü. nothing happens.
> >it just will print caracters like ~ or A B C (for the Fkeys).
> 
> Are you, perhaps, pressing one key at a time? When, for example, it says that 
> you enter the help screen with CapsLock+F1, it means to hold CapsLock while you 
> press F1.
No :) i clearly hold capslock while i pressed f1 :). 
> If you can't get it to work then please post a log file for us to analyze. The 
> best way to create a log file is to add the following two options:
> 
>    -ldebug (the -l is lowercase)
>    -L/path/to/logfile (the -L is uppercase)
i activate the debugmode in the configfile for a while because i dont get it speak :). ill send it.
> When you have the log file, just attach it to a message to this list.
As attachment or inline text?
> >I use fedora 17. 
> 
> And which release of brltty are you using?
the startup line says
BRLTTY 4.3 rev 5477 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]