Re: No Braille after Debian 13 fresh installation

On 1/8/26 1:37 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Emilien Monet, le jeu. 08 janv. 2026 14:02:21 +0100, a ecrit:
>> I'm blind and currently struggling with a fresh Debian install with [1]this
>> image. I installed BRLTTY with apt after the installation process (orca was
>> installed without BRLTTY).
> So you installed without braille?
>
>> But my b.note display displays absolutely nothing,
> nothing? You wrote below:
>
>> I don't get errors, just orca saying the BRLTTY version.
> What is true? When you say "orca saying", do you mean as audio feedback,
> or as written on the device? Or is the device really completely blank
> with only spaces? Details always matter.
>
> Also please try to type control-alt-f2 to see if the device shows
> something there.
>
>> since it is in the supported list.
> Which display is it exactly?
>
>> sudo brltty -b bn -d XXXX:XXXX
> Please do not hide such precious information as the usb id, we need it
> to be able to tell whether it really is supported or not (and it's
> really not personal information, it's the same for all the devices of
> the same kind).
>
>> My b.note is listed in lsusb, but maybe it's only detecting the keyboard
>> because the braille b.note's keyboard is working.
> That is a possibility indeed, possibly you need to perform some switch
> on the device to make it recognized as display and not only as keyboard.
>
> Note that lsusb only tells what hardware is there, not what is getting
> driven by something.
>
> Chevelle, le jeu. 08 janv. 2026 09:16:25 -0500, a ecrit:
>> To get ORCA to work with it, you will have to install 'xbrlapi'
> No, Orca does not need xbrlapi to be able to output braille.
>
> Samuel
> Sorry, I was thinking of the brltty-x11 package.  It says in Debian Accessibility FAQ that this should be installed.  Thanks Samuel.