[BRLTTY] introduction

[kendell clark]

hi
I'll be happy to. What do you need? Another debug log plus a systemd log
of brltty activities? I spend a lot of my time within x, but brltty only
is killed when I switch from x to a virtual console to test brltty's
speech. I have the keypad driver enabled by default now.

Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/03/19 at 12:55 -0500]
>
> Pressing kp_Enter+kp5 didn't speak. 
>
> If you post a log of that, I'll have a look at it.
>
>> One interesting thing I'm noticing is that when I switch to a virtual console, 
> I don't understand. You're always using a virtual console.
>
>> brltty is killed. I see messages from systemd indicating that brltty exited 
>> with status signal.
> Could you let us know what the actual systemd logs say?
>
> Brltty shouldn't ever crash, regardless of what you do. If it is then there's a 
> bug that needs to be fixed.
>
>> I'll correct the config file. I was under the mistaken impression that the ba 
>> driver was what was needed for use with orca, but I guess it connects to 
>> brltty on it's own, it doesn't need to be explicitly enabled? 
> For Orca to connect to brltty, you need the BrlAPI server - not the BrlAPI 
> braille driver. Yes, the BrlAPI server starts by default, although it can be 
> disabled from the command line, from brltty.conf, or via a configure option.
>
>> I'm used to speakup's method of navigation. That is, you use the number pad to 
>> read by line, word and character. Is there a brltty keyboard table with 
>> similar bindings? If so, I'll enable this so that users of sonar who are used 
>> to speakup are at least somewhat familiar with it. Thanks Kendell Clark
> While I've no idea if the bindings are exactly the same, brltty can already 
> navigate that way. Check out all the keypad keyboard table's bindings that are 
> KPPlus+whatever.
>