i'm just speaking from past postings here, i'm probably wrong so take mya dvice with a grain of salt. i believe that red hat uses something called kudzu. the spelling's wrong, but it detects any new hardware and tries to configure it. i'm not sure how to shut it off, but that's probably your problem. again, i'm not sure, i'm just going on a lim here. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:48 AM Subject: brltty and red hat 9 > Hi listers > I dug out my powerbraille 80 yesterday and decided to put it to use. So I > installed the brltty 3.2 RPM, editted the configuration file, and launched > brltty. All was well... for about 5 seconds. Then my display showed what > looks like computer braille question marks (dots 1-4-5-6). Moving around the > screen with my braille display revealed nothing but computer braille > questionmarks on the bottom half, and grade II braille questionmarks (dots > 2-3-6) on the top half of the screen. When starting brltty in rc.sysinit, > things go better up until right before it goes multiuser. Then my display > goes back to the questionmarks. I'm assuming it's something RH does in the > boot scripts, but for the life of me, I can't find it. This does not happen > when I connect the display to my laptop running slackware 9. > Any brltty/redhat users know what's going on here? Yes, I know this is the > speakup list. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
