On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Dave Mielke wrote:
[quoted lines by Jason White on 2011/08/28 at 10:11 +1000]
I don't understand what you mean here. Bluetooth and USB are entirely separate
matters, so the fact that Bluetooth isn't working for you at the moment
reveals nothing about whether USB works or not.
In this case, he was just giving me two pieces of information in one answer.
Correct.
Can you test on real hardware, i.e., by running Linux directly on the physical
machine, without virtualization? A virtual machine adds a lot of extra
complexity into the situation, especially when it comes to USB devices.
Yes, this could indeed be the case in this situation. It could be, for example,
that the real host is claiming the BC640's keyboard. It'd indeed be best if we
could test on a real host.
For the moment I am using a non-virtual machine. HOwever when I do
testing of things that are as vital to my machine continuing to be of use
to me for day-to-day use I tend to at least do a first check on a virual
machine or in some way isolate it. I don't have a machine at the moment
that I can afford to have down while I repair it although I can stop one
version of brltty and start the development version with relative ease so
if I need to test on the host machine it is not a disaster. Just that
experience teaches me that esting of system type software is best done in
an isolated manner from the host machine. As long as I am convinced that
the dev software breaks none of the major funtioality I don't have a
problem running in on my host.
Tom
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