[BRLTTY] Something is missing

Chevelle cstrobel at crosslink.net
Sun Aug 27 10:55:46 EDT 2023


     Can you explain more precisely what you are doing?  Take Debian for 
example, the default console when the GUI is running is #7.  If you 
press control-alt-f3 for example you would go to #3 which should be a 
text console.  Are you saying nothing is read by BRLTTY?


On 8/27/2023 8:45 AM, Life in Six Dots wrote:
> Hello Adrian, I have and it makes no difference. I'm currently on Ubuntu
> 22.04 MATE LTS and I can read the terminal but nothing in the GUI. On the
> other systems it's the opposite. I can read the GUI but not the terminal. I
> cannot fathom it. Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Adrian van Bloois
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2023 1:41 PM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> <brltty at brltty.app>
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Somwthing is missing
>
> Have you tried  F7 ???
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:21:10PM +0100, Life in Six Dots wrote:
>> Is there a way to switch from text mode to the GUI as I think this
>> might be my problem. Paul
>>
>>   
>>
>> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Life in Six Dots
>> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2023 12:55 PM
>> To: 'Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.'
>> <brltty at brltty.app>
>> Subject: [BRLTTY] Somwthing is missing
>>
>>   
>>
>> Hello BRLTTY Developers,
>>
>>   
>>
>> I am still having an issue with the braille keyboard when I do a clean
>> install of the latest images of Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and
>> 23.04. BUT if I install a slightly older image of Ubuntu MATE 22.04
>> LTS I have keyboard input.
>>
>>   
>>
>> I have also installed the latest image of Slint and I did have
>> keyboard input during the installation but not after. The kernel
>> version I currently have installed in 6.1.40.
>>
>>   
>>
>> I do have keyboard input when access the TTY failsafe terminal.
>>
>>   
>>
>> I personally think it has something to do with the latest builds of
>> BRLTTY when it is 6.4, or 6.5. I have not tried version 6.6. I have
>> installed these distros on different machines to ensure it wasn't down
>> to some funky driver issue. And tried five different braille displays.
>>
>>   
>>
>> I've also concluded that it is not a kernel or TIOCS issue. I hope you
>> will investigate this.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>   
>>
>>   
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.
>> To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY at brltty.app For general
>> information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
>


More information about the BRLTTY mailing list