Re: brltty problems with recent snapshots

[lars at lamasti dot net (Lars Bjørndal)]

Christopher Faylor writes:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor, le Sun 10 Jul 2011 20:31:22 -0400, a ?crit :
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:11:14AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> >just run
>>> >
>>> >brltty -b xw
>>> >
>>> >and it'll open a window at the top of the screen, which is supposed to
>>> >display your shell prompt and what you are typing.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> I don't see any difference in behavior between Cygwin 1.7.9, the most
>>> recent snapshot, or the 20110629 snapshot.
>>
>>What behavior do you see?  Does the window show you the text as you type
>>it in the cygwin console?
>
> Yes.

Let me explain a bit more what happens here.

(I've tried to also run rebaseall, but with no different result.)

BRLTTY starts with a recent cygwin1.dll,, and the initial startup
message is displayed on my braille display. Normally, it should be
possible to press a scrolling key to make the message disappear, but
nothing happens. If I, however, press the BRLTTY paste keys, the
display is updated with the text at the current screen line. If the
current line is a terminal prompt, and I type some text, the display
isn't updated until I again press the BRLTTY paste. If I press the
scroll up key for instance four times, and then press the paste keys, I
can read the content of that line.

I'm using a Handy Tech Modular Evolution braille display, and so the ht
driver in BRLTTY are used. The problem may be related to the braille
driver in BRLTTY, I don't know.

Hope this helps.

Lars

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