Hi, I had the previous version of Oralux working with brltty but haven't had the ambition to try the newest one (too much email to wade through at home). One thing I discovered is that I could drop parameters off the right end of the brltty line if the defaults were what I wanted. Since my device and table were correct I just used brltty=al for the Alva and cb for the CombiBraille. If I remember right (and I don't remember very many things right these days!), the cheat codes on the Knoppix site indicated that using brltty forced text mode. The listing of cheat codes is on both the Knoppix site and, fro the previous Oralux at least, on the CD also. On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Maybe somebody already accomplished this and posted but I didn't see such a message and I remember there was some debate about it. > There is a file in orlux that should enable you to make a boot floppy, in DOS, with the proper parameters; it is called knoblind.bat (warning: if you are using grade 2 in brltty it looks like knobl.bat. but it is k n o b l i n d .bat) However, I couldn't get this to work for me. so I instead used mkfloppy.bat and modified one of the append lines (there are several append lines for different levels but I just modified one at this point) adding the following; > brltty=bl,/dev/ttyS0,us.tbl (I wasn't sure whether it should be "texta" before the "us.tbl" but I don't think the default i saw in the knoblind.bat had that so I didn't put it in). > I then rebooted using the floppy and of course with the cd in the cdrom drive, and got brltty-3.2. The only error i got was something about the tdk or gdk (wasn't sure because I heard it but didn't see it on the display) directory not being found. You have to hit enter a couple of times and then you are in emacspeak. I think you have to get into the shell to mount your directories. > I also have the impression that Knoppix proper (without the speech0 may also carry braille display support if you want that and don't care about the speech, but i haven't tried this yet. > I suspect that if you use the regular Knoppix distribution you might have to put something in your append line to ensure you get text mode; will let you know when I get around to experimenting with that. > If you want to boot directly from the cdrom and don't want to have to type in parameters etc., I would imagine you could mount the iso file before burning and make modifications accordingly; also something I may try eventually. > Hope this is helpful or of interest to somebody. > > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list