BrlTTY / orca

[Veli-Pekka Tätilä]

Hi Samuel,
You mentioned you didn't quite get how my system is set up. Sorry for not 
providing enough context in this thread. Here's how things basically work:

I'm natively running Windows XP and Dolphin Supernova 7, which is a combined 
screen reader and magnifier. WIthin WIndows I have a pair of virtual serial 
ports com 1 and com 2 that are connected like a null-modem cable. 
Additionally, I'm running VmWare Server 1.01 which runs Ubuntu Dapper as a 
guest OS. There's a serial port in that Linux virtual machine which is 
connected to the host machine's com2 port. The last component of the puzzle 
is the terminal emulator TeraTerm which monitors the com 1 port, that being 
the other end of the virtual null modem cable.

In this setup I gave the following boot parameter even before launching the 
DApper installer:

console=ttyS0

on the virtual machine.

So what this amounts to is this:
I can run LInux inside Windows. ALl the console output in LInux goes via the 
virtual null modem cable to my Windows terminal emulator. There my WIndows 
screen reader is able to both speak and braille everything console related 
with my speech synth and language of choice (including proper Finnish 
support). From Dapper's point of view it is just using a serial console. 
Additionally, I get the Gnome display inside VmWare Server,  and can use 
Supernova's magnification to examine the screen and roughly track the 
virtual machine mouse.

VmWare server also supports USB devices and if my WIndows reader is not 
using it, the LINux virtual machine can see my Braille display (Tieman 
Voyager). What I'd like to do would be to get brlTTY working in the 
graphical GNome session and terminal, which is something that my native 
Windows screen reader can neither speak nor braille, of course. I've already 
got Gnopernicus speaking but it says it cannot find the braillle display.

So that's my setup. It is pretty complex, actually.

-- 
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Wed 04 Oct 2006 09:20:12 +0300, a écrit :
>> I'm trying to set up both brlTTY and the gnome-orca package and am
>> running into a similar problem. I've written the BrlTTY config for
>> my Voyager display. When running brlTTY, however, it brailles that
>> it cannot find a text screen at all. I'm using a serial console
>> connected to a Windows terminal emulator on the same machine. In
>> that emu, WIndows speech and Braille work well enough. HOwever, I'd
>> still like to use brlTTY in GNome apps like Orca, Gnopernicus or the
>> terminal without having to give up my serial console. Any tips as to
>> what i need to do?
> I don't really understand how your system is set up: it looks like
> your machine runs Linux, and then run Windows within Linux, via some
> emulator ; is it vmware, qemu?