Okay. We discovered that braille is started in the startup box but the is no list of option in preferences/braille/device. It gives one choice that being none.
Or at least so I am told. I might add that speech does not work on that computer because linux doesn't like the sound card. We are searching for a different one (if we have one) but at this point I must rely on braille and/or sighted help. Tom > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:46 +0300 > From: remus draica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tom Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gnome accessibility <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian > > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:05 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: > > Hi, > > Gnopernicus has an UI from which you can configure it. So, no need to > use or look into gconf keys. > > The dialogs you have to look at are: > 1. Startup Mode (make sure that braille is on--- the check box is > checked) > 2. Preferences / 2 Braille / Braille Device (make sure that brltty is > selected) > > Regards, > Remus > > > > >> Iterestingly when I finally got a sighted colleague to look at it in gnome >> here is what we find. >> >> using gconftool-2 at the console the device shows as brltty however in >> gnome it shows as none and there is no drop down to select from. I fond >> that at the end of day yesterday and am looking into it further today. >> >> Note that none of my colleagues have worked with screen reader technology >> before so I am having to do some interpretation of what they are reading. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, remus draica wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:15 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> Please check if braille is on in gnopernicus and brltty device is >>> selected. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Remus >>> >>> >>>> I am using the unstable version of Debian and kernel version 2.6, brltty >>>> 3.7.2-3.1 and gnopernicus 1.0.5-1. >>>> I am getting no response from the braille display when I type startx >>>> other >>>> than "screen in not in text mode". The braille display is an Alva abt34d >>>> which works fine with brltty at the console. Any ideas of what might be >>>> wrong and how to solve it? I followed the instructions on the brltty >>>> site >>>> for setting up gnome. >>>> >>>> Tom Masterson >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
