Hi,
I'm afraid I can't help much. I'm running Vinux verison 5 (I didn't
mean to take much risks with accessibility for this first try). But I
run a VritualBox. The host system is still Windows. I had to install a
driver on Windows to help the device be identified, but Windows doesn't
know what it is (hopefully NVDA can interact with it anyway). When
switching to my VM the USB port is transfered directly to Ubuntu, but I
didn't experience problems. Due to the time it takes to emulate the USB
port, I don't have Braille on my logon-screen. But if I unplug/replug
the BrailleSense, BRLTTY is here in seconds, telling me that this screen
isn't a text window (which is true). I didn't have anything to do to
help BRLTTY recognize it, just explaining VirtualBox to transfer this
USB port whenever I launched the VM, which was hard enough :D .
Hope that helps a little,
Vincent
On 12/13/2015 11:39 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I'm slightly out of topic, but can xou tell me whats your distro and
your release of brltty? Is your BrailleSense up-to-date? I ask because
on my Debian 8, BrailleSense is not recognized. brltty says the usb
descriptor is not present and, indeed, BrailleSense uses a gene!ic usb
driver and the vendor, ID, etc are blank. Have you experienced this?
What needs to be updated?
Thanks,
Regards,
Le 14/12/2015 07:35, Vincent LE GOFF a écrit :
I really don't know, I have never seen a BrailleSense with a Braille
keyboard. But I think it's exactly the same device, so the navigation
keys are probably the same. I don't know if I mentioned that, but when
pressing F1 on the display, the help message of BRLTTY for this driver
is printed. Quite surprisingly, though, half of the shortcuts are given
as a Braille shortcut (like, press Space+dot1,dot2,dot3). But not all
of them. So perhaps it's definitely a different driver for the
BrailleSense with a Braille keyboard and the BrailleSense QWERTY... but
the latter hasn't updated its help message.
Vincent
On 12/13/2015 9:37 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
[quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2015/12/13 at 20:27 -0800]
I have a BrailleSense U2 QWERTY.
Other people who've had the same device - but with a braille keyboard
- haven't
commented on the four scroll keys not working. Do you know if only the
qwerty
one has those four keys?
Perhaps that's why it's interpreted as a Braille Edge.
No, it's being correctly seen as a Braille Sense. At first I thought
that the
keys might actually be working. That's why I asked if it might be
presenting
itself as a Braille Edge.
I do have the /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices file, but I have trouble
copying
it. When I use scp to do so (that's the way, don't know why I can't
copy
information from my VM), I get an empty file, although the original
file
doesn't seem to be empty.
It's a special file so maybe it's having odd characteristics. Try
copying it to
a regular file first. If that doesn't work, try editing it, and then,
from the
editor, save it to a regular file.
A braille-parameter sounds fine to me. If it's just something to
update in
the 'brltty.conf', that's simple.
Yes, it'd be that simple.
Are these navigation keys used (under different codes) by the other
BrailleSense versions though?
No, but their physical codes are mapped differently on a Braille Edge.
Our
driver can handle that, though.
I will send you the more complete log tomorrow if it's okay, with
most of the keys I can find. I'll label them precisely.
That's fine. Thanks.
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