[BRLTTY] Brltty not working on Arch

Wed Apr 23 14:47:57 EDT 2014

Hi,
I have probably found the culprit and it is not a Brltty problem.
After some packages have been upgraded, my desktop session starts on
virtual console 1. But Orca sends braille output to virtual console 7.
When I switch to VT 7 I get correct output, so I am very sorry for
making such mess.
Now I know this is off topic, but does anyone know how to:
a) convince GDM to start on VT7?
B) Convince Orca to use VT1?
Thanks,
Vojta
Dne 23.4.2014 19:38, timothyhobbs at seznam.cz napsal(a):
> I saw something about charset conversion failiure, another place you
> should check is whether your LOCAL hasn't somehow changed.  You should
> be using a Czech UTF-8 LOCAL system wide.  Is it possible that you are
> using a Czech Central European encoded local instead?
>
> Tim
>
> ---------- Původní zpráva ----------
> Od: Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun at gmail.com>
> Komu: brltty at mielke.cc
> Datum: 23. 4. 2014 14:16:06
> Předmět: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty not working on Arch
>
>
>     Hi,
>     I tried lots of things, like recompiling Brltty from Arch build
>     system,
>     downgrading Brltty and ICU etc...
>     Nothing helps.
>     The strangest thing is, that when I just start Brltty and let Orca
>     running, Brltty accepts braille write requests but it doesn't output
>     anything on the display.
>     However, display is correctly identified as a Freedom scientific
>     display.
>     Still no suggestions?
>     thanks,
>     Vojta
>     Dne 22.4.2014 12:52, Vojtěch Polášek napsal(a):
>     > Hi,
>     > Okay, I have made some progress. Now I know, how to use apitest :-D.
>     > I compiled apitest from git repo and used it to test Brltty 4.5
>     on arch,
>     > I hope it doesn't matter.
>     > This is what shows
>     > ./apitest -b localhost -a /etc/brlapi.key -d
>     > Connecting to BrlAPI... done (fd=3)
>     > Connected to localhost using auth /etc/brlapi.key
>     > Showing dot patterns
>     > BrlAPI exception: Invalid packet on Write request of size 99 (16
>     00 00
>     > 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 2b)
>     > You may wish to add the -ldebug option to the brltty command line in
>     > order to get additional information in the system log
>     > Neúspěšně ukončen (SIGABRT) (core dumped [obraz paměti uložen])
>     > Here is an excerpt from the log, which I send as an attachment:
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 allocated tty 0x02e00006
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 Taking control of tty 0x02e00006 (how=0)
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 Received Write request on fd 10
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 charset UTF-8
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 writing exception 7 to 10
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 res != (size_t) -1 not met: invalid charset
>     > conversion
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.949 exception 7 for packet type 119 on fd 10
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.989 Closing connection on fd 10
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.989 Client on fd 10 did not give up control
>     of tty
>     > 0x02e00006 properly
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:45.989 Releasing tty 0x02e00006
>     > 2014-04-22 at 12:34:46.009 freeing tty 0x02e00006
>     >
>     > Do you know what could be the problem? I am using Czech braille
>     table.
>     > Thanks,
>     > Vojta
>     >
>     > Dne 19.4.2014 19:58, Vojtěch Polášek napsal(a):
>     >> Hi,
>     >> my name is Vojtěch Polášek and I am a blind IT student from
>     Czech Republic.
>     >> I am running latest brltty from official Arch repository. It is
>     brltty
>     >> version 4.5. I use Focus Blue 40, I tried it with old and new
>     version of
>     >> this type of brailly display.
>     >> However, after upgrading my system about a week ago, it stopped
>     working
>     >> with Orca. I received upgrade of Gnome to version 3.12, but I
>     can't see
>     >> any reason why it should stop working.
>     >> As I read logs, it seems that Brltty accepts connection from
>     Orca, but
>     >> then there must be some proglem.
>     >> It just prints Brltty and its version (using my configured
>     table), but
>     >> then it just shows "Screen not in text mode".
>     >> I am sending a verbose log output in attachment.
>     >> I wanted to use apitest.c from git. When I checked out tag
>     BRLTTY-4.5, I
>     >> couldn't compile it, because there was no rule for compiling
>     brl_cmds.h.
>     >> When I checked out latest master, I managed to compile apitest
>     but it
>     >> crashes when I try to use it with -n or other switch except for -h.
>     >> Is there any other information that I can send you?
>     >> Thank you very much for your help,
>     >> Vojta
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.
>     To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY at mielke.cc
>     For general information, go to:
>     http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.
> To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY at mielke.cc
> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mielke.cc/pipermail/brltty/attachments/20140423/f3ac4085/attachment.html>