speakup and brltty

[Alex Snow]

Thanks.  I wanted to have both speech and braille support at the same time.
I read the docs and installation seems pretty easy.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and brltty


> Oh yes, Speakupp and Brltty work nicely as a pair.  Unlike a Windows
> screen reader, Brltty won't follow you if you use Speakup review commands,
> but otherwise, they are fine with one another.  Getting Brltty set up is
> not nearly as hard as it used to be.  The documentation shows how you can
> select a Braille driver at runtime and that made it possible for Slackware
> to include it in the Extras folder on the FTP site or the Extra CD that
> comes with the full version.  I put Brltty in my /etc/inittab so that it
> keeps running no matter what my runlevel is.  My entry looks like:
> s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/brltty -n
> You have to put the "-n" at the end or it will go bonkers and run hundreds
> of Brltty processes.  In fact, the -n option was designed for inittab use.
> Add this line to your /etc/inittab, and put the appropriate options in
> /etc/brltty.conf and you are ready to go.  An example of /etc/brltty.conf
> is:
> braille-device /dev/ttyS1
> braille-driver ts
> This says to use ttyS1 and to use the "TS" driver which is short for
> Telesensory.  They were the ones who used to make the PowerBraille and
> Navigator series before they got taken over by Blazie and they in turn got
> turned into Freedom Scientific.  Anyway, good luck.
>
>
>
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