[BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input

[Lee Maschmeyer]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:11:40AM -0700, Nicholas Dechman wrote:
> However, while I was fooling with focus I allowed some time to pass with
> BrlTTY running by itself, and discovered that about 15 seconds after
> starting BrlTTY the Perkins key input starts working again.  So perhaps
> it is a transitional state where the Alva's keyboard driver is trying to
> figure itself out.

I've noticed sluggishness in starting brltty in the past several
builds (a couple weeks or more). I've been using the Alva BC640
(firmware 2.6) all the time so whether it applies to other displays I
don't know. In my case, though, it's the braille cells that take
awhile to start responding. Since I'm on native Linux it's about five
seconds. When I give the command:

killall brltty && brltty

the first time it starts up again immediately but after that there's
the five second delay. It doesn't matter how close together the
restarts are; it just takes awhile the second and all subsequent
times.

HTH,

-- 

Lee Maschmeyer

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