On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 04:22, Beth Hatch wrote:
Hi, The behavior described is very strange. I tried to reproduce it, but without success. Please try the patch attached to bug 167221 and send back the output. Regards, Remus > Hello everyone, > > > > I would like to let you all know that I have just placed the > following > bug report on Bugzilla: Bug 167221] New: Gnopernicus sends > output to serial > devices even when Braille is disabled. > > I have been told by a colleague that he had tried to file this > > particular bug on the Bugzilla site with Lynx but had very little > success > due to the number of tables and other elements of the web > interface. I'm > sure that what I'm going to say now is not the best > thing to say on a Linux > list,<smile> but I was only able to make > Bugzilla work when I used Internet > Explorer 6 and JAWS 6.0, my Windows > screen reader. Since it has come to my > attention that some users who > are blind have had difficulty in using > Bugzilla with Lynx, I wanted to > let you know how I was able to make it work. > > Now, on to the problem at hand. I have just experienced a problem > > wherein Gnopernicus sends information to my hardware synthesizer > connected > on serial comm port 1, thereby causing it to be unusable. > The synthesizer > is a Dectalk USB which also has a serial port. I use > this synthesizer for > both my Linux Fedora machine and my Windows > machine. I have just installed > Fedora core 3 on a new computer and > was testing it with the Dectalk USB > hooked up for the synthesizer in > console mode and Festival for support via > software speech in > Gnopernicus. I have not enabled Braille in Gnopernicus. > When > Gnopernicus was run from the accessibility options, it sent a great > > deal of garbage to the Dectalk. I've updated the firmware on the unit > > three times, and now it no longer works with either one of my > computers in > Linux or Windows. > > It seems the only thing I can do now is to send my synthesizer in > for > repairs and borrow another device so that I can use my Linux > machine. I > wanted others to know about this problem in hopes that it > can be fixed. If > there is no Braille device, probing for such a > device should not be allowed > to totally wipe out a hardware > synthesizer. I never thought this would > cause any problem since > Gnopernicus doesn't yet use the hardware > synthesizer, but now I'm > stuck without my Dectalk USB. > > Any thoughts or comments would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Beth > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
