[BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-01 Thread Storm Dragon
Howdy, I am using brltty with speech via the espeak driver adn with the keypad keyboard driver. I am very impressed so far. The kernel I am using does not have speakup included, and I like to use the console for about 99% of things, and that wasn't possible with this computer until I finally g

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-02 Thread Storm Dragon
lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/01 at 21:06 -0400] Although I have autoread turned on, new incoming text is not read. This is the case for most things, like if I type ls, the list of files isn't automatically read, and I have to use kppluss+numpad 7 and 9 to move through the output. Y

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-02 Thread Storm Dragon
:28:31PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 08:54 -0400] Oh, I must be misunderstanding what autoread is supposed to do. I assume you mean autospeak. What brltty's autospeak feature does is to speak changes to the current line. It has various subsettings s

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-02 Thread Storm Dragon
with espeak is a bit too quiet even on loudest setting, but other than that, it is very responsive and quite nice to use. On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:21:58PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 18:24 -0400] It can make for a lot of speaking. But there's u

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-03 Thread Storm Dragon
elke wrote: [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 21:48 -0400] The device is something like /dev/svca. I haven't done anything with it myself, but maybe it could be useful. It's /dev/vcsa. Brltty does use it. It doesn't stream new characters written to the screen. It allows the

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-03 Thread Storm Dragon
l use the system-default, usually 64 MiB ; auto-connect-localhost = no ; auto-connect-display = no On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/03 at 08:58 -0400] Sorry, I was sure I attached both lol. Default.conf should be attached to th

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty new user

2016-07-03 Thread Storm Dragon
reboot your system adn you should then have sound in the console and the GUI at the same time. HTH Storm On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 10:41:09PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/03 at 18:38 -0400] I will just read the contents of client.conf into this message, and try

Re: [BRLTTY] minor problems getting brltty to work with an older braille sense

2016-08-26 Thread Storm Dragon
Howdy, To get it working with Orca, first login as root, and chgrp users /etc/brlapi.key Then, add xbrlapi -q to your startup applications. Grade 2 won't work with it in Orca as far as I know. When I tried it, it went all weird, random nonsense dots in random cells. Supposedly that can be fixed