hi, On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

Hello! Yeah, I want to have brltty too. I want to have suse as accessible as debian or fedora, when you can use brltty at boot time with any display you like, and you can choose whether you want to install from the live cd or to have a text install. I don't like that you need a serial display in order to install suse from the normal cd or dvd, there are almost no motherbords with serial ports left, and the new braille displays are usb displays.

halim Sain already mentioned that this is not true the usb support works currently for handytech, alva, and papenmeier

Also, suse blinux is built on brltty, so I don't understand why it doesn't become updated. not really build on brltty - one of the first svl version was a fork of brltty - yes but since the last 10 years - I added many features that brlty does not have

specially for ncurses based applications and customization like keymaps, profiles speech filters etc. if you have any feature request - just let us know and we can discuss it here thanks marco

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Hello all, It was some time since I posted to this list, but I have a question. Blinux doesn't support that many braille displays and it's very frustrating that one needs to have a serial display for installing openSUSE. Well, one could use the Live CD, but I prefer braille. When I last checked the repositories I could not find BRLTTY. Has this been added or are there any planns to eventually replace the old Blinux with BRLTTY? Is anyone else interested in this as well? Best regards, Christian

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Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

Yeah, I want to have brltty too. I want to have suse as accessible as debian or fedora, when you can use brltty at boot time with any display you like, and you can choose whether you want to install from the live cd or to have a text install.

Of course you can install Suse with both the text-based and the graphical installer. Moreover, SBL is able to handle text mode YaST much better than Brltty would, because SBL is able to track attribute cursors, which Brltty can't do. And yes, SBL supports USB braille displays as well. So why replace a console screenreader with a lot of important and useful features with another screenreader which lacks some of them? (automatically loading application profiles, soft-cursor tracking and better speech output support, just to name a few.)

I don't like that you need a serial display in order to install suse from the normal cd or dvd, there are almost no motherbords with serial ports left, and the new braille displays are usb displays.

USB/serial converter do exist and SBL can handle USB connected braille displays too. Henning -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: blinux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: blinux+help@opensuse.org

Hello Marco and all, Oh, I apologize if I was wrong regarding the USB support. I am using a Humanware Brailliant 40 braille display which is set default to use the Baum protocol. If I changed it to use the Handytech protocol on my serial port I was able to get braille working. But I will try to do the same on a USB port and see what happens. Blinux should support the Baum variant as well which BRLTTY also supports. I have an older braille display, the Powerbraille 40 from TSI. That is also supported by BRLTTY and should also be supported in Blinux from my opinion. If one chooce to install the latest factory version of opensuse with the help of the LiveCD, how can one later activate Blinux? Best regards, Christian On 2009-03-14 at 12:54 Marco Skambraks wrote:

hi, On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Christian wrote:

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Hello all, It was some time since I posted to this list, but I have a question. Blinux doesn't support that many braille displays and it's very frustrating that one needs to have a serial display for installing openSUSE. Well, one could use the Live CD, but I prefer braille. When I last checked the repositories I could not find BRLTTY. Has this been added or are there any planns to eventually replace the old Blinux with BRLTTY? why do you say "old blinux" or "old sbl"

sbl is still maintained

and I added many features specially for speech-only navigation

we got very positvie feedback about sbl in conjunction with kbdsniffd

which braille display do you use?

thanks

marco

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Is anyone else interested in this as well? Best regards, Christian

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