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! please visit my whishlist at http://alex-snow.endoftheinternet.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
