Re: help with the brlapi driver

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Jacob,

The first error message shows your problem. You must have a brlapi 
authentication key. To create one do the following:

echo something >/etc/brltty/brlapi-key

"something" should be a bunch of letters and numbers. 

John

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> Yes, there appears to be some errors. Here's the output:
> unable to load authentication key: /etc/brltty/brlapi-key
> Error opening brlapi connection
> brl_open_device: open device failed
> ** BRAILLE initialization failed for BRLTTY on port 1
>    To change one or more settings use gnopernicus UI
>    
>    ** (srcore:25823): WARNING **: Ignoring incoming code_sets component
>    gnopernicus-Message: speech initialization succeded
>    
> Not sure what the port 1 message is about, my display is on port 2 and I
> didn't see any option to change that setting.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:51:30PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> > Jacob, can you look if gnopernicus outputs any error or warning
> > messages during intialisation of braille support.  If the
> > BrlAPI initialisation failed, that should usually get reported
> > on the same console where you launched gnopernicus from.
> > 
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