[BRLTTY] Braille keyboard

[Lars Bjørndal]

Thank you, Dave! You wrote:

> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2026/04/24 at 14:45 +0200]
> 
> >I will ask a question on behalf of an acquaintance. She's running Ubuntu
> >22.04.5 LTS with BRLTTY version 6.4, and has a Brailliant BI20X display.
> >Her problem is that she isn't able to use the braille keyboard for
> >input, neither in the terminal, nor in GUI. 
> 
> We first need to find out if the keyboard is working. Even if input isn't working, do chords, e.g. Space+h for help, work?

Yes, it works. It disappeared after a short while, but yes, the keyboard seems to work.

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> If the keyboard is working but input isn't then it could be due to a brltty setting. If chords work then try Space + dots 1,3,8 to enable braille keyboard input. You can also find this setting within the Braille Typing submenu.

She pressed spc+138 and tried braille input from within the terminal, but no luck.

> If none of these work then we may need to start looking at logs. Support for the X models was introduced around 6.4 so perhaps some lingering problems were resolved in a later release.

Ok. What could I suggest for her to get the needed log information?

Thanks, Lars