----- Forwarded message from Labrador <labrad0r edpnet be> ----- From: Labrador Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:42:33 +0200 Subject: Re: [orca-list] brltty, ubuntu and orca User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i
Hi Cheryl, On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Is there a way to > start brltty automatically when starting orca in ubuntu? On my debin box, > I have brltty starting at bootup; it works in the consoles and once I > start orca it also works there. But in ubuntu I don't see how to start > brltty at bootup; I've resorted to starting brltty with "sudo" in a > console and then logging in to orca. Refering to a current discuttion at the BrlTty ML, it seems there is a MEGA / GIGA BUG IN UBUNTU's 8.04.1 CD: when even you select Orca to startup with the session, you WON'T have braille through BrlTty AS LONG AS THAT PROBLEM ISN'T FIXED. Until now I wrote to Luke Yelavicz and also to the Ubuntu-Accessibility list and as answer I get NO ANSWER until now. So maybe all unhappy people should post and repost their claims to that list or someone from that team should do the effort to clear-up the situation ??? The problem is probably the /lib/brltty/brltty.sh script: this is doing abnormal things, and that script was also causing problems in the previous distro (Gutsy). BTW, try to remove completely brltty + brltty-x11 from Ubuntu Hardy: it STILL CONTINUES TO ASK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF DISPLAY AND if it is an U)sb or Bluetooth or S)erial; pressing eX)it will proceed with continuing to boot-up, but at each boot you will be stolked by that infernal question while we can't see anything at that moment. So: ther is NO problems with Orca nor Gnome, No problem with BrlTty itself, there is only a GREAT GREAT and urgent to fix proble min Ubuntu's brltty.sh script, and probably more ... (open /etc/brltty.Conf and see the syntax used, it is TOTALLY UNUSABLE). So I insist: post to Ubuntu-Accessibility, and I will do so until I obtain any answer about how to fix that problem. Aldo. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 : Micro$oft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix ! http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility