Re: [BRLTTY] Polkit error fills startup log

2018-05-08 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:18:00PM -0500, Rob wrote: > Adrian van Bloois <adr...@pa0rda.nl> wrote: > > Certainly not. > > What version of brltty are you running? > As stated, 5.5 > > > Have you compiled it yourself? > No; ubuntu package.

Re: [BRLTTY] Polkit error fills startup log

2018-05-08 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:38:05PM -0500, Rob wrote: > BRLTTY 5.5, ubuntu server 18.04. > My start up log is full of line after line after line of text that looks like: > May 08 14:23:26 newbean brltty[493]: brltty: unable to connect to polkit: > g-io-error-quark (163) Error initializing

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:16:26AM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > Or > > Could root just mv brltty to /sbin ? Yes it could, but you will be stuck when you make the next upgrade. > > ___ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:12:26AM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > Ok I think there is just one more hurdle. > I made the changes in /etc/default/brltty that John mentioned. > I apt-got purged 5.3.1 and recompiled 5.6 as root. > All went well, but when root tried to edit

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-02 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:51:09PM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > WellI don't know what to try next. > 5.3.1 works fine, so I'm not in trouble, but 5.6 would be nice. > I was thinking of the following: > rm all brltty directories recursively, apt-get purge 5.31 and recompil. > What do yall think? > I

Re: [BRLTTY] only bad thing about brltty

2018-02-23 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 04:59:01PM -0600, Brian Tew wrote: > Wonderful program--I would be lost without it. > For reading an unmoving screen it can't be beat. > But when I am chatting it moves to the next line with each new message as the > screen updates. > So I have to hit space-f to freeze the

Re: [BRLTTY] Resending this, I'm a new member to this list, with a few questions and a couple of compliments

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian van Bloois
What OS are you running on your Lenovo? I use a T520 here, with Centos 6, I dont have any problems compiling brltty here. Adrian On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 07:17:29AM +1300, Charlie wrote: > Hi all: > > > My name is Charlie Smith, and I live in New Zealand. For > assistive technology, I

Re: [BRLTTY] Music notation .bse???

2017-11-18 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:38:49PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/11/17 at 22:48 +0100] > > >Attatched is one of the files I downloaded, gziped. > > The file essentially does contain braille music. It has what looks like an > xml &

Re: [BRLTTY] Music notation .bse???

2017-11-17 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 03:49:10PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/11/16 at 12:32 +0100] > > >I downloaded some music noted on fille, supposedly in braille music > >notation. I learnt earlier that those things are .brf filename but this

Re: [BRLTTY] brailliant info needed

2017-11-14 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 05:34:00AM -0600, Brian Tew wrote: > Ok so brltty 5.3.1 has a bug in the baum driver. apt-get says 5.3.1 is the > latest it has. > 5.5 is the latest in reality. > > How do I upgrade to 5.5, and will that interfere with ubuntu's normal > upgrading process or cause me

Re: [BRLTTY] brailliant info needed

2017-11-12 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 02:26:23PM -0600, Brian Tew wrote: > brltty 5.3.1 rev 5.3.1 on ubuntu 16.04.2 x86/64 Can anybody confirm that this version supports this brailliant? > > ___ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille music

2017-09-19 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 06:40:42PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: echo $LANG says en_US.UTF-8 Two files attach, my.ttb is my text table and music is the file I'm trying to convert. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | http://Mielke.cc/ > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario |

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille music

2017-09-18 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:40:39AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/09/18 at 13:06 +0200] > > >I'd like the conversion so that I don't have to switch the system for > >each time I want tot read music. > > The ciommand to use is: >

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille music

2017-09-18 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 08:44:06PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/09/17 at 17:37 +0200] > > >I attach a file that I suspect might be BRF format. > > Yes, it's indeed in the BRF format. Brltty has a text table named brf for it. >

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille music

2017-09-17 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 09:23:03PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote: > [Adrian van Bloois] > > [...] > > > I want to read music and play it on the piano. > > I have seen that braille music notation is available on the net, e.g. > > Bach wel-tempered

[BRLTTY] Braille music

2017-09-16 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Hi everyone, I want to read braille music on my braille display. It should be possible but how? Any experience? Adrian -- Adri P. van Bloois "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W. Dijkstra

[BRLTTY] Problems 5.5 on CentOS 7

2017-06-15 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Hi, Ik installed 5.5 on my CentOS 7 laptop, but it did not get running very well. I get on my display the text: brltty rev 5.5 Followed by an empty line. And nothing else happens. I'm not able to move the display one line up or down, it is just stuck. When I switch my display off and on I get the

Re: [BRLTTY] Using lynx with braille display

2017-05-31 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 06:24:09PM +0530, Vikash Kesharwani wrote: > >Hi I am trying to use lynx with braille display, When I open a page it >jumps to the first link directly, skipping all the text content before >it. How do I read all those text(how do I know there are text before >

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY 5.5 has been released.

2017-04-19 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 05:24:51PM +0200, mattias jonsson wrote: > i hope this release are more stable on a asus tf 103c with android 5.0 > if i run brltty on this device the device reboots random > I'm running brltty on an Asus too, no problems whatsover as far as stability is concerned. I'm

Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7

2017-03-02 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:29:05PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > I agree. The best solution, though, is for us to try to figure out why > --prefix=/usr/local isn't good enough. Right now it's not the default, I'd be very happy iif it becomes the default. > > >Also I'dlike 64-bit libs in lib64 and

Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7

2017-03-01 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:15:34PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/03/01 at 23:03 +0100] > > >Single user mode is runlevel 1 as far as I know and multi-user mode is > >runlevel 3. > > More precisely, run level 3 is multi-user mode

Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7

2017-03-01 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Sorry, here is the attachment. -- Adri P. van Bloois "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W. Dijkstra [Unit] Description=Braille display driver for Linux/Unix [Service] Type=forking

[BRLTTY] failed loading braille-driver

2017-02-28 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Hi Dave, One way or another it refuses to load the Alva driver al. I dont have blutooth on this machine but the display reacts on usb, it says also usb connected. It just shows all cells up, like without a ttb file. Attached are the output from mkae and make install, maybe you can spot somehting

Re: [BRLTTY] Configure bug?

2017-02-27 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Hi Dave, It is the braille driver, but why? All is in /usr/local/lib64/brlttyas far as i can tell, compilation went well, here is the log: 2017-02-27@15:51:19.671 [brltty] BRLTTY 5.4 rev BRLTTY-5.4-186-gccd5e66aM [http://brltty.com/] 2017-02-27@15:51:19.671 [brltty] lock descriptor allocated:

Re: [BRLTTY] Problem in 5.4

2017-02-25 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 05:37:54PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/02/25 at 20:46 +0100] > > >Problem solved, > > Excellent! > > >looking at the log I saw it could find the drivers. > >Reconfiguring the driver dir

Re: [BRLTTY] Problem in 5.4

2017-02-25 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Now here's the logfile that you really want. -- Adri P. van Bloois "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W. Dijkstra 2017-02-25@20:27:28.557 [brltty] BRLTTY 5.4 rev unknown [http://brltty.com/]

[BRLTTY] Problem in 5.4

2017-02-25 Thread Adrian van Bloois
Hi, When I swithc of my braille display and switch it on later, brltty has stopped. How can I make brltty hang in there when my display is switched off? I though stand-alone-programs in the configuration would help but when I try to configure that option brltty will no longer compile correctly.