[quoted lines by Nikhil Nair on 2019/07/27 at 15:00 +0100] >I take it, from the silence, that my assumption was wrong, and no one (or >at least, no one who regularly reads this list) has experience with Freedom >Scientific displays under the Windows version of BRLTTY.
Freedom Scientific braille devices have indeed been successfully used on windows. The more likely situation is that trying to figure out what your problem is isn't that easy so noone ventured to give it a try. I didn't answer right away because I'm rather illiterate when it comes to Windows - I'm a Linux and an Android person. I was hoping that someone much more familiar with Windows would respond, but, since that hasn't happened, I'll give it a try. How did you install brltty on your Windows system, and how did you configure it? For example, did you unpack the .zip archive or did you run the .exe installer? Also, how are you starting brltty (including which options are being specified). Perhaps you could also post your brltty.conf (as an attachment will do). The usual behaviour of Windows is to direct a specific USB device to a specific driver. Put simply, you can't (easily) have your braille device directed to both the JAWS driver and the LibUSB driver. Since you need JAWS to continue to be able to communicate with your braille device, its driver must be left in control. You could try using the same serial device. If, say, the JAWS driver is using COM6 then you'd set your braille device to serial:com6. You don't need to separately test each existing serial device. Look through the Windows serial device list to find the one that's attached to the JAWS driver for your braille device. If you'd like to use USB directly then, as described above, you won't be able to use the standard LibUSB driver. You need to use the other LibUSB driver - the one that uses a filter. The LibUSB filter gets installed at the Windows kernel level and intercepts all USB operations. Whenever it sees a USB operation that LibUSB is looking for then, if no other application has that USB device open, that USB operation is directed to LibUSB. To keep it simple, it might be best to try the serial approach first. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
