buschmann

Hallo all, I am using scribe with Ubuntu 10.04 and it is useable. Now I tried an installation with a new system on Lubunut 11.10 (oneric ocelot). The installation script did at least something, but there is no startable Icon, nor anything in the /home directory. Is there anyone who has it up and running with Linux 11.10? How can I install it properly? cu Matthias

Hallo, as i wrote before, there was a problem with my serial port(s) That is a linux problem, and resolved. Now i can keep on installing my footpedals. Up to now, the wizard still is grey and the other fields too (device and number of pedals) But i found a file in my home-folder under /nch/scribe called <settings>. This seems to be a text-based config file. I changed the values for e.g. pedalnumber and at least it shows the number of pedals in the greyed out field. So i assume, that i can insert my serial port into the fiting line, an hope that this will work out. But i still dont know the syntax. What do i have to put into that line? ttyS0, /dev/ttyS0, 0, serial, COM1. As driver i have installed inputattach --microsoft /dev/ttyS0 , wich should work at least with the most common serial mice. I would be happy if one could help me a bit on this, or tell me how to get the wizard running :-) cu Matthias

Hallo, thank you for that trick. I think it is a good idea. Up to now, i want to get my serial pedal up and running. If this fails, i will try this USB method. But let me ask a question. Your USB device emulates the Fx keys on a keyboard. So whenever you step on it, it sends an Fx-key. When using Open Office, allmost all F-Keys are connected to a function. That means,while wrting a text in OO, every step on this USB-pedal will start e.g. the spell-checking, the navigator, a new text window or whatever. This definitly not intended. Of course, we can rearange any of the F-keys either in scribe or in OO, but this means changing the basic setup of either of the programs. How did you solve that? cu Matthias

I just found the uninstall option. I did uninstall and afterwards reinstalled scribe. - No changes. Within the last minutes i tried the xev-command. that showed nothing, wich lets me assume, that there could be sonething wrong with my serial ports. Iĺl check this later. cu Matthias

Hallo, i just installed scribe 4.31 in Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. The footpedal ist connected to a serial port. the footpedal itself works. Under <settings> <control> i hooked the <use foot pedal playback control> option. But the <device:> field is grey and the <number of pedals> is also grey. There is no Option to write something into or to choose from. What can be missing? Other Question. Could it be helpful to uninstall scribe and try to reinstall it again? And if so, how can i savely uninstall the programm? cu Matthias