I think it might have been in preferences. But I did try it without the braille keybard specification and "o" still didn't print when using a keyboard other than the braille edge one. But I'll make sure keytable is off and try again here in the next day or two.
-- Cheryl "Today, all sorts of subjects are eagerly pursued;. but the knowledge of God is neglected…. Yet to know God is man's chief end, and justifies his existence. Even if a hundred lives were ours, this one aim would be sufficient for them all." (Calvin: commentary on Jeremiah 9:24.) > On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote: > > [quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2015/05/31 at 18:08 -0500] > >> Here is my brltty.log which I hope will show this problem and its solution. >> As >> long as i type the letter "o" on my braille edge with brltty on, the letter >> is >> registered. If I do it with any other keyboard while brltty is running, the >> letter is not registered. This happens whether the key is o or capital o and >> so far I have found no others that do this. > > This one, too, was so far back in my inbox that I'd stopped noticing it. I > guess it's a good thing that my actual memory kicks in every now and then. :-) > > This problem is indeed very odd. Here is your log for when you typed a, o, > and > b. You'll notice (if the mysterious numbers don't get in the way) that the > treatment of all three characters is identical. I've divided the log into > three > groups of seven lines each - one group per typed letter - to make this > comparison easier to do. > The letter a: The number 30 is its keyboard scan code. > > keyboard key: press 30: received > kbd key press: A (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:0) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000) > keyboard key: press 30: forwarding > command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing) > keyboard key: release 30: received > kbd key release: A (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:0) > keyboard key: release 30: forwarding > > The letter o: The number 24 is its keyboard scan code. > > keyboard key: press 24: received > kbd key press: O (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:14) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000) > keyboard key: press 24: forwarding > command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing) > keyboard key: release 24: received > kbd key release: O (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:14) > keyboard key: release 24: forwarding > > The letter b: The number 48 is its keyboard scan code. > > keyboard key: press 48: received > kbd key press: B (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:1) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000) > keyboard key: press 48: forwarding > command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing) > keyboard key: release 48: received > kbd key release: B (Ctx:2 Grp:1 Num:1) > keyboard key: release 48: forwarding > > As you can see: In all three cases, both the press and the release of the > letter - whether or not it's for the letter o - are forwarded to the kernel > (that's what "forwarding" means in the log). > > There's another interesting line near the beginning of the log, i.e. during > brltty start-up: > > Keyboard Table: braille > > This means that, for some reason, brltty has been told to use the "braille" > keyboard table. This shouldn't be causing any problem, but why not follow any > possible angle. Could you please check your brltty options (for -k), > brltty.conf content (for keyboard-table), etc to see where this specification > is coming from? If you can't find it, then maybe try just overriding it by > specifying another keyboard table via a commanda line option (perhaps > -kkeypad). Be sure to capture a log so that the use of a different keyboard > table can be verified. > > I've actually just tried running brltty with -kbraille, here, and didn't have > the problem. Let's see, though, what happens in your case. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
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