[BRLTTY] Still a problem with scroll keys on BS6 (BRLTTY master branch)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Christophe Delaunay on 2026/08/24 at 10:45 +0200]

Hi:

>On my Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Trixie in 64 bits, the BRLTTY 6.7 embedded
>package did not work as expected since scroll keys of my BS6 did not work at
>all. 

I think 6.7 would be too old for proper bs6 support.

>This time, the four scroll keys do something but they were not mapped as they
>should.

This is a known problem as there was an initial problem within the intial bs6 firmware for English users. We were interpreting the scroll keys correctly but the device itself was sending them incorrectly. The initial firmware for other langauges was okay, though, as it was released a bit later, i.e. after they discovered the problem. I guess, since you have a .fr email address, that your device has the corrected firmware.

So, now, here's what I think is going on. We didn't know all of this so the post-6.9.1 code contains a fix to correct brltty for the (faulty) English firmware version. That's why it's probably wrong for you. Please try building the actua 6.9.1 release (git checkout brltty-6.9.1) and let us know if it works correctly.

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