On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 16:53 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: Hi,
In this case, you have 2 choices: 1. To select the direct driver from gnopernicus (ALVABRAILLE 34d) 2. To install brltty on your computer and recompile gnopernicus in order to detect brltty. IMPORTANT: In case 1, the braille support is available only in graphical mode. Regards, Remus > Okay. We discovered that braille is started in the startup box but the is > no list of option in preferences/braille/device. It gives one choice that > being none. > > Or at least so I am told. I might add that speech does not work on that > computer because linux doesn't like the sound card. We are searching for > a different one (if we have one) but at this point I must rely on braille > and/or sighted help. > > Tom > > > > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:46 +0300 > > From: remus draica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tom Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Gnome accessibility <gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org> > > Subject: Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian > > > > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:05 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Gnopernicus has an UI from which you can configure it. So, no need to > > use or look into gconf keys. > > > > The dialogs you have to look at are: > > 1. Startup Mode (make sure that braille is on--- the check box is > > checked) > > 2. Preferences / 2 Braille / Braille Device (make sure that brltty is > > selected) > > > > Regards, > > Remus > > > > > > > > > >> Iterestingly when I finally got a sighted colleague to look at it in gnome > >> here is what we find. > >> > >> using gconftool-2 at the console the device shows as brltty however in > >> gnome it shows as none and there is no drop down to select from. I fond > >> that at the end of day yesterday and am looking into it further today. > >> > >> Note that none of my colleagues have worked with screen reader technology > >> before so I am having to do some interpretation of what they are reading. > >> > >> Tom > >> > >> > >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, remus draica wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:15 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Tom, > >>> > >>> Please check if braille is on in gnopernicus and brltty device is > >>> selected. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Remus > >>> > >>> > >>>> I am using the unstable version of Debian and kernel version 2.6, brltty > >>>> 3.7.2-3.1 and gnopernicus 1.0.5-1. > >>>> I am getting no response from the braille display when I type startx > >>>> other > >>>> than "screen in not in text mode". The braille display is an Alva abt34d > >>>> which works fine with brltty at the console. Any ideas of what might be > >>>> wrong and how to solve it? I followed the instructions on the brltty > >>>> site > >>>> for setting up gnome. > >>>> > >>>> Tom Masterson > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > >>>> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
