Hello. At 13:37 02/08/2001 +0200, Christian Schoepplein said:
I am still struggling with the Braille interface in the Yast2 installation program for SuSE. I can't seem to move around the installation dialogs properly. The keys I am trying to use are: Tab to advance to the next dialog, up/down arrow to select items in list boxes and radio buttons. Space to highlight an option in a radio button. Enter to select the next button. However, the Braille display is not tracking the changes on-screen, and parts of the display appear to be getting complete garbled.
The keys you are useing are ok. If the tracing for the brailledisplay is not working try to go one line up or down. There are problemes becouse of the different frames in yast2 and sometimes this helps. I'm afraid it didn't help in my case. Also, the Braille is not showing which buttons I am highlighting when I press the Tab key, and the up/down arrows are not making any difference either. For example, if I manage to get to the hard drive and custom partition options, as I did once by sheer chance, I cannot tell where I am. Moving around with the Braille keys doesn't really help me either, because I cannot tell which option or options are selected, ecept in the case of radio buttons, which have an X next to them if selected.
Also, is there a way to change the Braille translation table from the German 8-dot default, (which I find extremely difficult to read), to English 6-dot? I'm using an Alva-Braille ABT340. The display seems responsive enough, and is initialising reliably now.
Yes, you can switch to 6-dot-braille by pressing the following keycombination.
This works in places, but sometimes it reverts to 8-dot mode at random. At the moment, the installation is too hit and miss to be of use.
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