Starting brltty from ubuntu-powerpc edgy cd with usb-to-serial

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

Ok,; here are the results of my latest attempt on the mac with the  
ubuntu live cd.

First of all, if you leave the cd alone it will indeed boot all the  
way so you do have to catch it; the bootup prompt appears to be  
pretty soon after the spin-up. However, using "live nofb" does not  
appear to make a difference.

However, brltty does appear to load. I see the 3.7.2 version before  
the question marks come onto the display. I can go into the config  
menu and change settings. If I go to tty7 and do alt+f2 and type  
orca, tab, check the box and hit enter, I hear sounds from the cdrom  
drive and the braille display changes to the "screen not in text  
mode" message. also when I shut down the machine I get "brltty  
terminated". so brltty is loading but something isn't quite right here.

btw remember that you have to use "sudo" to get brltty to run on ubuntu.

i'll have to try to research the sound some more; if I could get  
brltty to work I could probably troubleshoot the sound and if I could  
get sound to work I might be able to troubleshoot brltty!!!

--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".