[BRLTTY] Delay problem with latest code

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Fri Oct 10 11:31:36 EDT 2014


First: Did you notice the log I attached to my first message in this
thread?

Mario wrote:

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:
> 
> > [Dave]
> >
> >> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2014/10/09 at 08:32 +0200]
> >> 
> >> >This problem (look below) is still unsolved. I'd like to add that the problem does
> >> >not occure with a Handy Tech Active Braille.
> >> 
> >> On which device is it occurring?
> >
> > Handy Tech Braille Star 40.
> >
> >> What it sounds like is that the device is going to sleep, at least partially, 
> >> and that, when in that state, the first key press does no more than wake it up.
> >
> > That makes sence. However, with Active Braille on bluetooth, this
> > doesn't happen at all. Another difference between these two devices
> > is that the Braille Star 40 is more slugish, e.g. it respnds slower
> > generally to key strokes on the display, compared to using Active Braille.
> >
> >> What I do know is that brltty doesn't miss key events just because a Bluetooth 
> >> connection has been idle for an extended period of time. I've left such 
> >> connections idle overnight, for example, without any problems.
> >
> > The display is not going into sleep state as it does when battery save
> > mode is enabled. I should also add that this delay issue was not present in
> > earlier versions of BRLTTY. unfortunately, I cannot remember exactly when it
> > was introduced.
> 
> If you are very motivated, you could use "git bisect" to find the
> revision that actually introduces the problem.  You basically pass it a
> good and bad revision, and it will do binary search to find the actual
> revision that introduced the problem.

I'm not a git expert. When I do git checkout <one commit>, I miss some
files. Among them is autogen.sh, and so it's not possibel to compile
that verison. I'm not sure why this happens.

Lars


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