[BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

Sat Jul 15 06:58:09 EDT 2023

I have done a clean install of Debian (latest version) this morning and
experiencing the same problem as I did with Ubuntu 23.04. No input from the
braille keyboard. It's quite frustrating.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Life in Six Dots
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2023 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

I have been trying different commands. Some work. Some don't. For example, I
can press dots 1-2-4-5-8 and chord to change to a contracted table but I
can't press dots 1-2-4-5-7 and chord to change to uncontracted. Dots 2-6 and
chord for escape doesn't work. Still no input from the keyboard.

I have excuted the following sysctl command:

sysctl dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1

The output was: dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti = 1

Are there any other sysctl commands I can try?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Life in Six Dots
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 9:02 PM
To: 'Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.'
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

Hello Dave,

I cannot perform any commands on the braille keyboard. I've tried four
different displays (all different models and makes). All with the same
result. No matter what combination I press, I get no response.

What I want is to be able to say change my table using a standard keyboard
such as switching from NABCC to UEB in terminal as I cannot do that at the
moment using a perkins keyboard on the display it is completely
unresponsive. For example I would like to perform, as I would on a Focus
Blue using the commands dots 12458 and chord or 12347 and chord, to switch
between uncontracted and contracted using a standard keyboard, since I
cannot do unable to do this as the  commands don't currently work on any
braille display.

Basically, no Chord + dot combination work. Not one single command.

It might not be a bug with BRLTTY per se, but it is a bug in Ubuntu 23.04,
and 22.04 LTS wasn't great either hence the upgrade.

I have executed the following command successfully:

sysctl dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1

But it has made no difference to my issue.

I might just switch to a different distro at this time.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Dave Mielke
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 4:43 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
<brltty at brltty.app>
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

[quoted lines by Life in Six Dots on 2023/07/13 at 15:34 +0100]

>I have done a clean install of Ubuntu 23.04. I have the Focus and the 
>Brailliant connected via USB but I still don't have any input from 
>either of the Perkins Keyboards.

Do chords (i.e. Space + some dot key combination) work?

>Can someone point me to keyboard shortcuts for a QWERTY keyboard so I 
>can navigate without a braille keyboard? I cannot seem to find this 
>document. It would make working much easier.

What do you mean by navigate via the braille keyboard?

>Meanwhile, I'm hoping the bug will be resolved with a future update.

Whatever the ause of your problem is, it's not a bug.

I, too, am suspecting that it's the TIOCSTI issue. Did you maybe issue the
sysctl command and then reboot to get brltty restarted? What was the sysctl
command that you executed, and then what was its output?

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