[BRLTTY] qemu and braille output

[Elias Oltmanns]

(2013-10-22) Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> Elias Oltmanns, le Tue 22 Oct 2013 14:35:44 +0200, a écrit :
>> Giving the option
>> 
>> -usbdevice braille
>> 
>> on the qemu command line makes a device named “QEMU USB BRAILLE” appear
>> in the Windows device manager.
> 
> Yes, it's a baum device.
> 
>> Howeverr, there is no driver installed for this device and I don't
>> know where to get it either.
> 
> Did you install BRLTTY inside your VM?  It will propose you to install a
> driver for this.

Admittedly, it did not occur to me to install BRLTTY alongside NVDA.
Doing so now has, indeed, made the device show up as a Baum Supervario
40 in the device manager.

>
>> When choosing BRLTTY as the output device in the braille settings dialog
>> of NVDA, I'm told that no connection to the braille device can be
>> established.
> 
> So I guess you didn't, please do.

Well, it is possible to choose BRLTTY as the braille terminal now, alas,
I still get no output on the hardware. BRLTTY itself (inside the VM) has
been configured to talk to a Baum device via USB. Also, I have tried the
brltty-win-4.5-1 as well as the brltty-win-4.5-1-libusb-1.0 package with
no apparent difference. Would I have a reason to choose one rather than
the other?

Thanks for your time,

Elias