I hope this list will be able to point me towards some documentation that I can understand. I'm a sighted person experimenting with Braille terminal and Linux in the hope of providing a blind friend with some better connectivity than his existing BrailleNote mPower.
I've a little Asus netbook with Ubuntu 10.04, a BrailleNote PK and a USB to serial adapter. The Ubuntu came with brltty 4.1 and orca but I've had no success in getting any sense out of them. I downloaded and built brltty 4.2 with --with-braille-driver=bn and --with-braille-device=ttyUSB0 (make install didn't seem to update the brltty in /sbin) and run it with sudo ./brltty in the Programs directory, the BrailleNote displays the BRLTTY 4.2 .. message and then says "Screen not in text" I have tried running Orca and get speech out of it but have no clue how to connect it to the braille output. I would be happy for now if I could have a direct link to a terminal session which allows me to log in and use command line i/o from the Braillenote. I've spent a week looking through the forest of documentation online and not found any simple answers. Grateful for any pointers. Regards, Andy Jack _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
