[BRLTTY] version 6.7 on rpi4

[Dave Mielke]

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Hi:

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>I am trying to get brltty 6.7 running on a raspberry pi four. 

Why such an old release (we're up to 6.9.1)? Which kind of braille device do you have. Perhaps, for example, 6.7 doesn't yet include support for it.

>Alas I have no clue what I am doing.

Please tell us what you've done so far.

>right now I get two dots aka periods on the display when the pi boots up. 
>then when i hit some  braille keys i get the word text.

This behaviour hasn't been reported before. My guess, though, given that you're getting the word "text", is that it's the partial message "screen not in text mode". If that's the case, my guess is that you're booting to a graphical display, rather than a text console, and that Xisn't running at all or maybe it is but orca isn't running. What happens if you switch to a text console?

>i have tried uncommenting desktop and braille in brltty.conf but it did not help.

There are seven active lines in your configuration file. They are:

   braille-driver	auto	# autodetect
   braille-device	usb:		# First USB device matching braille driver.
   text-table	en-nabcc	# English (North American Braille Computer Code)
   braille-parameters tt:Columns=40 # [1-80]
   braille-parameters vs:DisplaySize=40 # [20-40]
   braille-parameters xw:Columns=40 # [1-80]
   screen-driver	lx	# Linux

These look okay except that I'm wondering why you have those three braille-parameter lines. What are they for?

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