Re: [BRLTTY] Sudden USB disconnects on Focus 40 Blue

2024-03-05 Thread Frans-Willem Post
the Fedora repos (i.e. not main or gnome-46 branch). The issue persists. So, once again, can someone help me solve this issue? Thanks, Frans-Willem On 05-03-2024 15:07, Frans-Willem Post wrote: Hello all, Sorry for the noise. After updating the display's firmware version to 5.82-26 inside a

Re: [BRLTTY] Sudden USB disconnects on Focus 40 Blue

2024-03-05 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Hello all, Sorry for the noise. After updating the display's firmware version to 5.82-26 inside a Windows virtual machine, the display is back in working order. Issue solved, kind regards, Frans-Willem On 05-03-2024 10:51, Frans-Willem Post wrote: Dear list, Running BRLTTY 6.6 (and Orca

[BRLTTY] Sudden USB disconnects on Focus 40 Blue

2024-03-05 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Dear list, Running BRLTTY 6.6 (and Orca main) under Fedora 39 with X11. Since today, my Focus 40 Blue braille display no longer works. Fedora received an update to kernel 6.7.7, but the issue is present with kernel 6.7.6, too. I have checked the USB-cable and the connections; they are all

Re: [BRLTTY] Configuring brltty with Fedora

2022-02-24 Thread Frans-Willem Post
/02/24 10:04, Frans-Willem Post wrote: Hello Brandt, I found the same thing; that Fedora doesn't enable some services by default. That can be fixed, though. sudo systemctl enable --now brltty.service; should enable the BrlTTY service permanently. Good luck and kind regards, Frans-Willem

Re: [BRLTTY] Configuring brltty with Fedora

2022-02-24 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Hello Brandt, I found the same thing; that Fedora doesn't enable some services by default. That can be fixed, though. sudo systemctl enable --now brltty.service; should enable the BrlTTY service permanently. Good luck and kind regards, Frans-Willem On 24-02-2022 08:43, Brandt Steenkamp

Re: [BRLTTY] Possibility for Braille input under Wayland?

2022-01-29 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Thanks for the quick response. I'll be patient and consider my options. Kind regards, Frans-Willem Post On 29-01-2022 22:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Frans-Willem Post, le sam. 29 janv. 2022 22:08:49 +0100, a ecrit: Is there a possibility to use the Braille input keys of my Freedom

[BRLTTY] Possibility for Braille input under Wayland?

2022-01-29 Thread Frans-Willem Post
and applications has been no problem. Orca and BrlTTY both work very well. Braille input, however, does not because of the absence of an X-server. Is there a possibility to use the Braille input keys of my Freedom Scientific Focus 40 Blue under Wayland? Thanks and kind regards, Frans-Willem

Re: [BRLTTY] Backspace (dot7) and Enter (dot8) on Fedora 33

2020-12-23 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
On 22-12-2020 23:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: we'd thus need a brltty log with -l server to see what it is doing. Samuel See attached log file. I had to Alt-Tab into another window and back, to get xbrlapi going in the terminal where I started it. This time, I typed 'a', 'b', 'c', three

Re: [BRLTTY] Backspace (dot7) and Enter (dot8) on Fedora 33

2020-12-22 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
On 22-12-2020 23:25, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frans-WIllem Post, le mar. 22 déc. 2020 23:20:27 +0100, a ecrit: I ran the strace command (see attached log). Did you not get anything on stderr? In the log I see write(2, "grabbed 0x02406b78\n", 19)= 19 write(2, "win 0x024

Re: [BRLTTY] Backspace (dot7) and Enter (dot8) on Fedora 33

2020-12-22 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
On 22-12-2020 23:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frans-WIllem Post, le mar. 22 déc. 2020 22:59:17 +0100, a ecrit: Now I'm trying to get xbrlapi up and running - but it does nothing. When I start it like this: "xbrlapi -n -v", watch that terminal and proceed to type in another termi

Re: [BRLTTY] Backspace (dot7) and Enter (dot8) on Fedora 33

2020-12-22 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
Hello Samuel, On 22-12-2020 21:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Frans-WIllem Post, le mar. 22 déc. 2020 18:14:49 +0100, a ecrit: The physical input keys are OK; they work when I'm in BrlTTY's preferences menu and need to return (dot8). They work as expected (backspace and enter

Re: [BRLTTY] Fedora 33, Braille OK on console, no Braille in GUI

2020-12-21 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
Hello Alexander, On 21-12-2020 17:09, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote: 21.12.2020 18:24, Frans-WIllem Post пишет: Hello, On 21-12-2020 15:10, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote: 21.12.2020 9:56, Frans-WIllem Post пишет: Hello all, Would someone be able to help me with getting BrlTTY running

Re: [BRLTTY] Fedora 33, Braille OK on console, no Braille in GUI

2020-12-21 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
Hello, On 21-12-2020 15:10, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote: 21.12.2020 9:56, Frans-WIllem Post пишет: Hello all, Would someone be able to help me with getting BrlTTY running on Fedora 33, see below? My braille display says "Not in text mode" while in GUI. On the TTY-console

Re: [BRLTTY] Fedora 33, Braille OK on console, no Braille in GUI

2020-12-20 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
Hello all, Would someone be able to help me with getting BrlTTY running on Fedora 33, see below? My braille display says "Not in text mode" while in GUI. On the TTY-consoles, however, it works perfectly. Thank you very much. Frans-Willem Post On 15-12-2020 21:41, Frans-WIllem

[BRLTTY] Fedora 33, Braille OK on console, no Braille in GUI

2020-12-15 Thread Frans-WIllem Post
entific Focus 3" by lsusb. Thanks for your help! Kind regards, Frans-Willem Post -- Met de .ASC-bijlage(n) kan uw e-mailprogramma garanderen dat bovenstaand bericht van mij afkomstig is, en onderweg niet door derden is aangepast. OpenPGP_0xC0932DFE211E9A9D.asc Description:

Re: [BRLTTY] Custom text table on Android

2020-08-08 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Hello again, success! On 08-08-2020 18:06, Dave Mielke wrote: > Did you try rebooting, just in case that matters? All you should need to do is > switch to a different table and back again, but it wouldn't hurt to test > rebooting. Yes, I rebooted in between tries. It didn't matter. >> Does the

Re: [BRLTTY] Custom text table on Android

2020-08-08 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Hello again, On 08-08-2020 16:34, Dave Mielke wrote: > I just checked that code. It wasn't working properly, and has now been fixed. Thank you. > Please update to the latest apk.The update mechanism through the app's > interface is very convenient. It works very well. > The right place to put

Re: [BRLTTY] Custom text table on Android

2020-08-07 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Hello again, On 07-08-2020 16:41, Dave Mielke wrote: > Not easily because the list is hard-coded. This is so that a proper name for > each tale, rather than its file name, can be displayed.OK, I understand. > In theory (though I haven't tested this recently), you can use the same file > name as

[BRLTTY] Custom text table on Android

2020-08-07 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Dear all, Recently, I received a question about using a custom text table on BRLTTY for Android. I therefore installed the brltty-latest.apk, configured it and found it working as expected. There is a (quite extensive) list of predefined text tables to use - but is there a possibility to use

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-09-05 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Have tested the brltty package in bionic-proposed as instructed in comment #12: v5.5-4ubuntu2.0.1 It works as expected. After commenting out the "api-parameters Auth=keyfile" line in brltty.conf and restarting the machine (just to be sure), my braille display works completely in both text

[Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-09-05 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Have tested the brltty package in bionic-proposed as instructed in comment #12: v5.5-4ubuntu2.0.1 It works as expected. After commenting out the "api-parameters Auth=keyfile" line in brltty.conf and restarting the machine (just to be sure), my braille display works completely in both text

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-23 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Thanks to a member of the BrlTTY mailing list, my problem is solved. It seems that the default authorization of BrltTTY under Ubuntu was no longer working. Providing it with a dummy key-file was enough to get it back to work - instantly. The display came back to life immediately after these

[Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-23 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Thanks to a member of the BrlTTY mailing list, my problem is solved. It seems that the default authorization of BrltTTY under Ubuntu was no longer working. Providing it with a dummy key-file was enough to get it back to work - instantly. The display came back to life immediately after these

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-23 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Dear John, Thank you very very very much! Your instructions worked perfectly. The display came back to life immediately after editing the conf-file, a simple "sudo touch /etc/brlapi.key" and "sudo chmod 0644 /etc/brlapi.key". Kind regards, Frans-Willem Post On 23-07-18 10:3

[BRLTTY] Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-23 Thread Frans-Willem Post
don't know). Can someone help me get the display back up under GNOME (i.e. under X)? Thank you very much, Frans-Willem Post signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a mes

[BRLTTY] [orca-list] Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-20 Thread Frans-Willem Post via orca-list
. This is continuous, while the display reads "Screen not in text mode". Ultimately, the display turns itself off (or BrlTTY does this, I don't know). Can someone help me get the display back up under GNOME (i.e. under X)? Thank you very much, Frans-Willem Post signature.asc Descriptio

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Have just replayed the upgrade in a VirtualBox VM using a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04. Before the upgrade (of policy-kit), the braille display works (both output and input). After the upgrade and reboot, the same errors appear in /var/log/syslog: Jul 18 11:49:43 test-VirtualBox brltty[409]:

[Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Have just replayed the upgrade in a VirtualBox VM using a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04. Before the upgrade (of policy-kit), the braille display works (both output and input). After the upgrade and reboot, the same errors appear in /var/log/syslog: Jul 18 11:49:43 test-VirtualBox brltty[409]:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] [NEW] Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Public bug reported: $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release:18.04 $ apt-cache policy brltty brltty: Installed: 5.5-4ubuntu2 Candidate: 5.5-4ubuntu2 Version table: *** 5.5-4ubuntu2 500 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

[Bug 1782320] [NEW] Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Public bug reported: $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release:18.04 $ apt-cache policy brltty brltty: Installed: 5.5-4ubuntu2 Candidate: 5.5-4ubuntu2 Version table: *** 5.5-4ubuntu2 500 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-05-15 Thread Frans-Willem Post
I'm sorry, but I no longer have the crash-report. I performed a clean install of Ubuntu (now 18.04) and the bug is gone. Next to the release difference (17.10 to 18.04), I did not install the nVidia proprietary driver. For me, this problem's solved. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-05-15 Thread Frans-Willem Post
I'm sorry, but I no longer have the crash-report. I performed a clean install of Ubuntu (now 18.04) and the bug is gone. Next to the release difference (17.10 to 18.04), I did not install the nVidia proprietary driver. For me, this problem's solved. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Finally making some headway, I tried the following: 1. boot the system. 2. at the graphical login prompt, switch to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F2) 3. login 4. logout The screen displays the GUI login prompt but hangs. I can still login on this console using the braille display. 5. Log in from

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Finally making some headway, I tried the following: 1. boot the system. 2. at the graphical login prompt, switch to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F2) 3. login 4. logout The screen displays the GUI login prompt but hangs. I can still login on this console using the braille display. 5. Log in from

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Trying to reproduce on different system (laptop). Same Ubuntu release and GNOME/my desktop system, GDM packages. $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 17.10 Release:17.10 $ apt-cache policy gdm3 gdm3: Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Candidate: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Version table: ***

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Trying to reproduce on different system (laptop). Same Ubuntu release and GNOME/my desktop system, GDM packages. $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 17.10 Release:17.10 $ apt-cache policy gdm3 gdm3: Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Candidate: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Version table: ***

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Trying to pin this bug down, I deactivated nVIDIA's driver, reactivated nouveau and rebooted. Sadly, the problem still persists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764643 Title: Logout

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Trying to pin this bug down, I deactivated nVIDIA's driver, reactivated nouveau and rebooted. Sadly, the problem still persists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764643

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Thanks. I uninstalled LIRC, just to be on the safe side. Orca is necessary for my using the computer. I uncommented the line #WaylandEnable=false and rebooted. The problem still persists. Then, without logging in graphically, I switched to tty3 (Ctrl+Alt+F3). Logged in, executed a single command

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Thanks. I uninstalled LIRC, just to be on the safe side. Orca is necessary for my using the computer. I uncommented the line #WaylandEnable=false and rebooted. The problem still persists. Then, without logging in graphically, I switched to tty3 (Ctrl+Alt+F3). Logged in, executed a single command

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
As requested, I killed both gdm3 and gnome-shell. The bug-ids are #1764672 and #1764674 respectively. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764643 Title: Logout

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
As requested, I killed both gdm3 and gnome-shell. The bug-ids are #1764672 and #1764674 respectively. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764643 Title: Logout after console use

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
I followed your instructions; commented out the line in /etc/apport/crashdb.conf, reproduced the problem, but there are no crash-files in /var/crash. Sorry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1764643] Re: Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
I followed your instructions; commented out the line in /etc/apport/crashdb.conf, reproduced the problem, but there are no crash-files in /var/crash. Sorry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1764643] [NEW] Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Public bug reported: Hello, Ubuntu 17.10 64 bit GNOME 3.26.2 nVIDIA GeForce GT620 driver 384.111 X-server 11.0, v1.19.5 Orca + braille enabled $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 17.10 Release:17.10 $ apt-cache policy gdm3 gdm3: Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Candidate:

[Bug 1764643] [NEW] Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Public bug reported: Hello, Ubuntu 17.10 64 bit GNOME 3.26.2 nVIDIA GeForce GT620 driver 384.111 X-server 11.0, v1.19.5 Orca + braille enabled $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 17.10 Release:17.10 $ apt-cache policy gdm3 gdm3: Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Candidate:

[Bug 1764643] [NEW] Logout after console use freezes GUI

2018-04-17 Thread Frans-Willem Post
Public bug reported: Hello, Ubuntu 17.10 64 bit GNOME 3.26.2 nVIDIA GeForce GT620 driver 384.111 X-server 11.0, v1.19.5 Orca + braille enabled $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 17.10 Release:17.10 $ apt-cache policy gdm3 gdm3: Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3 Candidate:

Re: [BRLTTY] Typing all characters Focus 40

2017-08-18 Thread Frans-Willem Post
would tell This was indeed the case. In my X-environment, I can not type the characters not listed in the keymap, but on a real TTY-console, I can. Thank you for helping me understand, Frans-Willem Post The Netherlands On 18-08-17 20:40, Frans-Willem Post wrote: Hello, Using BRLTTY 5.3.1 on

[BLXF] Orca gebruik voor web-ontwikkelaar

2016-08-11 Thread Frans-Willem Post
en braille? Alvast bedankt voor jullie hulp, Frans-Willem Post -- BLXF - BLinuXForum MailingList Voor hulp of in- en uitschrijven, stuur het woord help naar: blxf-request at lists.tuxfamily.org Archief raadplegen: http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/blxf of http://www.mail