[BRLTTY] the letter "o" not registering when typed from other keyboards on powerpc mac mini running debian jessie

[Cheryl Homiak]

I think it might have been in preferences. But I did try it without the braille keybard specification and "o" still didn't print when using a keyboard other than the braille edge one. But I'll make sure keytable is off and try again here in the next day or two.

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Cheryl

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> On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2015/05/31 at 18:08 -0500]
> 
>> Here is my brltty.log which I hope will show this problem and its solution. As 
>> long as i type the letter "o" on my braille edge with brltty on, the letter is 
>> registered. If I do it with any other keyboard while brltty is running, the 
>> letter is not registered. This happens whether the key is o or capital o and 
>> so far I have found no others that do this.
> 
> This one, too, was so far back in my inbox that I'd stopped noticing it. I 
> guess it's a good thing that my actual memory kicks in every now and then. :-)
> 
> This problem is indeed very odd. Here is your log for when you typed a, o, and 
> b. You'll notice (if the mysterious numbers don't get in the way) that the 
> treatment of all three characters is identical. I've divided the log into three 
> groups of seven lines each - one group per typed letter - to make this 
> comparison easier to do.
> The letter a: The number 30 is its keyboard scan code.
> 
>   keyboard key: press 30: received
>   kbd key press: A (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:0) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000)
>   keyboard key: press 30: forwarding
>   command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing)
>   keyboard key: release 30: received
>   kbd key release: A (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:0)
>   keyboard key: release 30: forwarding
> 
> The letter o: The number 24 is its keyboard scan code.
> 
>   keyboard key: press 24: received
>   kbd key press: O (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:14) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000)
>   keyboard key: press 24: forwarding
>   command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing)
>   keyboard key: release 24: received
>   kbd key release: O (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:14)
>   keyboard key: release 24: forwarding
> 
>   The letter b: The number 48 is its keyboard scan code.
> 
>   keyboard key: press 48: received
>   kbd key press: B (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:1) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000)
>   keyboard key: press 48: forwarding
>   command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing)
>   keyboard key: release 48: received
>   kbd key release: B (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:1)
>   keyboard key: release 48: forwarding
> 
> As you can see: In all three cases, both the press and the release of the 
> letter - whether or not it's for the letter o - are forwarded to the kernel 
> (that's what "forwarding" means in the log).
> 
> There's another interesting line near the beginning of the log, i.e. during 
> brltty start-up:
> 
>   Keyboard Table: braille
> 
> This means that, for some reason, brltty has been told to use the "braille" 
> keyboard table. This shouldn't be causing any problem, but why not follow any 
> possible angle. Could you please check your brltty options (for -k), 
> brltty.conf content (for keyboard-table), etc to see where this specification 
> is coming from? If you can't find it, then maybe try just overriding it by 
> specifying another keyboard table via a commanda line option (perhaps 
> -kkeypad). Be sure to capture a log so that the use of a different keyboard 
> table can be verified.
> 
> I've actually just tried running brltty with -kbraille, here, and didn't have 
> the problem. Let's see, though, what happens in your case.
> 
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