[BRLTTY] some trouble with handy tech braillestar 80 and the connected keyboard with brltty 6.5

[Mario Lang]

Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at freenet.de> writes:

> I've connected an usb keyboard with a ps/2 converter to my braillestar
> 80.
>
> This way I can use the display with two different machines.

I recommend getting an USB switch and connecting the Braille Star and
the USB Keyboard to it.  These are cheap, and it should work reliably.
The BrailleStar 80 is a desktop device, so you are unlikely to carry it
around often.  A switch should be fine.

> It works for me most of the time with following issues:
>
> 1. some times brltty doesn't reliable get key releases.
> In that case typing isn't possible when EG. the left alt or right alt
> hangs etc.
> In other cases the last pressed key was repeated until pressing a key
> again.

I think this is a hardware problem, either in the converter or with the
PS/2 port of the Star.  The driver can only pass on whatever it
receives.

> 2. selecting the some keytable in brltty.conf doesn't work here.
> I've tested EG the desktop keytable.

That is likely a limitation of the PASSAT2 support, yes.
I guess this could be fixed though.

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