Hi Dave. I really like these displays, and if it was not for the ridiculous price - I would own one without hesitation.
A couple of things to consider: firstly - the Alva does not really support Window-eyes in terms of its driver configuration - but Gw Micro does support the Alva with respect to configuration with Window-Eyes, so I think it fair to say that the Alva folks will iron out problems related to Jaws much more willingly than they will for Window-eyes. Secondly: and I hope more helpfully - I wonder if you have a driver conflict. When I evauated the Alva, I ran it on two Windows Seven machinhes, using the Windows Vista driver. I did not have the problem that you are describing, but because the Alva with its optional feature pack can act as the Window-eyes synthesiser, there could be a conflict. I noticed that it automatically over-rode my preference for the pc speech, but I forget precisely what I had to do to keep the Alva quiet. I wonder what happens if you experiment with the Alva's configurations to disable the external speakers etc, rather than experimenting firstly with Window-eyes. Can conflicts of this type occur because of other USB devices? Just speculation here. These are great displays, perhaps a little complicated to use, but worth persevering with as if you can solve the problem you have - I think/hope that everyone you show it to will be just as impressed as I am. All the best. Vaughan. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Bahr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2011 2:18 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: alva bc640 issue Hi all, Does anyone here use the alva bc640 braille display with window-eyes? I'm testing one at my technology lab and am encounterring a very strange error. It seems as if the bc640 is somehow controlling the mouse cursor and causing it to jump around the screen, eventually landing on some icon or another. I am not pushing any single button on the display when this happens, and it renders window-eyes to repeat whatever icon it has found, if any, over and over. If it doesn't land on an icon, it just makes the windows defalt sound over and over. I have installed the drivers for the bc640, tried a new usb port as well as a new usb cable. It was used on another computer running jaws and worked fine I was told, I didn't really mess with it there cause I'm not a jaws user. I also have turned the mouse/we cursor to "always up' instead of blink, that was the first thing I did and it still had this issue. It is not something that is constant, but frequent, enough that I really can't use both reader and display. I'm hoping it's not a short in the display, this was just flown in and is brand new and is being evaluated to be used in our technology lab at school.. If anyone has any info, please let me know, thanks, -- Dave c. bahr If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
