Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-08 Thread Jason White
I've built 2.6.21.4 from source and the problem's still there. During boot, the braille display beeps quite frequently. Also, I notice that when brltty is killed, the braille display goes back to its internal menu, which never happened before, and starts beeping regularly - so obviously something

Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-08 Thread Jason White
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:15:00AM +0200, Boris wrote: > Display: BAUM Supervario 40 Same as mine. > OS: Debian Sid, linux 2.6.21-1-686 The same, except that mine is x86_64. > > Any idea ? ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post

[BRLTTY] more symptoms (was Re: Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues)

2007-06-08 Thread Jason White
It appears that the beeping of the display only happens while BRLTTY is active, and (presumably) searching for it. If I power off the display while BRLTTY is running, within a few seconds the display gets powered back up and returns to the configuration menu in the firmware, then starts beeping ag

Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-08 Thread Boris
Hello Jason, hello all, I have some very similar issues. For instance, if I leave my desktop to take a coffee break, when I am back, my display is still on but BRLTTY does not drive it anymore. From there I disconnect and reset my display, kill BRLTTY, start BRLTTY, connect my display, and most

Re: [BRLTTY] Trying BLRTTY on live CD with other than default text table

2007-06-08 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Tomas Valusek on 2007/06/07 at 19:02 +0200] >I'm unable to change BRLTTY's default text table. I'm not used to >American braille table, so I'd like to use included Czech one. But >trying to run command similar to "brltty -t czech" Specify -t cz for the Czech table. >gives ser

Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-08 Thread Elias Oltmanns
Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:18:56AM +0200, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > >> Well, at least I can assure you that there is no such problem with tho >> old version brltty 3.7.2 on a vanilla 2.6.21 kernel. > > Thanks. I can't remember whether any of this has changed

[BRLTTY] Are USB product ids hard coded in BRLTTY

2007-06-08 Thread Elias Oltmanns
Hi all, because there is no serial port on my computer, I hlve to connect my old Handytech Modular 40 by means of a prolific usb-serial converter. Sadly, brltty doesn't find the braille device searching the usb bus, regardless whether pl2303 (the kernel module for teh prolific usb-serial converter

Re: [BRLTTY] Are USB product ids hard coded in BRLTTY

2007-06-08 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Hi all, > > because there is no serial port on my computer, I hlve to connect my > old Handytech Modular 40 by means of a prolific usb-serial converter. > Sadly, brltty doesn't find the braille device searching the usb bus, > regardless whether pl2303 (

Re: [BRLTTY] Are USB product ids hard coded in BRLTTY

2007-06-08 Thread Elias Oltmanns
Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> because there is no serial port on my computer, I hlve to connect my >> old Handytech Modular 40 by means of a prolific usb-serial converter. >> Sadly, brltty doesn't find the braille device sea

Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-08 Thread Jason White
Here is some of the debug output I collected. Note that it keeps cycling through the autodetect procedure for all of the models of braille display that have USB support. Jun 9 10:43:10 jpc brltty[5396]: checking braille device: usb: Jun 9 10:43:10 jpc brltty[5396]: performing USB braille display