I still have not found a way to get stropts.h on my system; I googled and found other people missing it but no solution. the strange thing is I haven't found it on my Tiger system either, but screen compiles on my tiger installation. The issue comes up in pty.c.
At any rate, I was finally able to run brltty by copying the already-compiled binary from my bootable Tiger installation, which I have on an external drive. I hd tried this earlier and it had failed, but the reason for this was that in my Leopard installation, although Keyspan Assistant was imported, the driver wasn't loading. When I reinstalled the Keyspan driver, there were then two Keyspan designations but one didn't work and I had that one designated in /etc/brltty.conf. When I fixed that problem, brltty worked. Btw I suggest that anybody compiling brltty on the Mac put in in a location other than the standard one. Put it in your home directory or /opt. Otherwise, if you have to do an archive and install to reinstall or if you upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5, your brltty will be wiped out. You might also consider having screen in a location other than /usr/bin. >From what I hear, braille in leopard is working pretty nicely, though I still don't know what it's functionality is compared to brltty; will have to ask on one of the Mac lists about that. The supported displays are: Alva 544 Satellite Alva 544 Satellite Traveller Alva 570 Satellite Pro alva 584 Satellite Pro baum pocket vario 24 baum super vario 32 baum superVario 40 baum superVario 64 baum superVario 80 baum VarioConnect 24baum varioConnect 32 baum VarioConnect 40 Humanware brailleConnect 24 Human brailleConnect 32 Humanware brailleConnect 40 humanware brailliant 64Humanware brailliant 80 Freedom Scientific focus 40 freedom scientific focus 80 freedom scientific pac mate 20 freedom scientific pac mate 40 Quite a few displays from four manufacturers but not helpful to those of us with other equipment. I am very thankful for the ability of brltty to support so many different displays, and I'm very glad I can at least use it in the terminal on the Mac. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
