[quoted lines by Krister Ekstrom on 2004/04/04 at 12:10 +0200] >Try the following: >brltty -bvo -dusb: >The colon is important for some reason. Yes, the colon is important. Without it, brltty will think you mean the serial device "/dev/usb". In brltty-3.5, all device specifications, strictly speaking, should be preceeded by a qualifier, e.g. "serial:" or "usb:". For backward compatibility, the "serial:" is optional for serial devices. The "/dev/" prefix is also optional, i.e. a relative device path is assumed to be in "/dev". The following four device specifications, therefore, all refer to the same serial device: "serial:/dev/ttyS0", "serial:ttyS0", "/dev/ttyS0", "ttyS0". That's why "usb" is interpreted as "serial:/dev/usb". There are two ways to specify a USB device. The first is to just specify the qualifier, i.e. "usb:", in which case the first braille display connected via the USB which matches what the driver is looking for is selected. This is usually all you need to specify. In case you have more than one USB display of a similar model connected, you can specify its serial number after the qualifier, e.g. "usb:12345". This will instruct brltty to look for that specific display on the USB. For the curious, the following drivers, in brltty-3.5, now support USB: Alva, FreedomScientific, HandyTech, Voyager. The Voyager driver has been rewritten to use brltty's new user-space USB core, and, yes, the FreedomScientific driver is new and supports the Focus and PAC Mate displays. There's also another new driver in 3.5, by the way, which supports Tivomatic's Albatross displays. The final version of 3.5 will be released in another couple of weeks or so. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://familyradio.com/ | http://mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list