[BRLTTY] brltty debian squeeze vmware fusion

[Jason White]

jeronimo at leierweg.net <jeronimo at leierweg.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed from the netinst iso under VMWare Fusion. The installation didn’t work without sighted assistance. Brltty was just saying: “Screen not in text mode.”
> Apart from this the install went well. However when I start the virtual machine the braille display is not working. It is connected to the virtual machine via the host os i.e vmware fusion device management.
> When I log in i.e 
> root
> password 
> and then type 
> brltty
> It is working alright.

Are you saying that BRLTTY isn't started automatically when the Debian system
is booted, i.e., before you get to the "login" prompt?

If so, run
chkconfig brltty
and if it reports
brltty  off
then that's your problem and you should enable it in your init scripts with
chkconfig brltty on
after which it should be started automatically when you boot the Debian
system.

If it's already enabled properly but still not starting, then you'll have to
look at log messages in /var/log/messages to find out why.