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Lisa SalingerLisasali@mindly.social
Aug 5, 2026, 9:28 PM
What fun! My mantis is working fine with jaws, but stopped working with NVDA this morning. I have tried restarting both the mantis and the PC, but no luck. When I try to change to the Baum driver, I get an error that says it cannot be loaded. Fun times! I think something overheard me saying I probably would cancel my Jaws subscription, and it forwarded that Intel to the powers that be, and this is why the braille display is not working with NVDA. :-)
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Ricky Engerricky_enger@mindly.social
Aug 5, 2026, 9:31 PM
@Lisasali Mine's not working either, but for a different reason. Have you tried setting Braille display to automatic? If you do that, does it tell you what it has detected? Mine says "automatic, Humanware Brailliant" and then more stuff after that but that's the gist.
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Lisa SalingerLisasali@mindly.social
Aug 5, 2026, 9:36 PM
@ricky_enger , I read about the panning issue you are having, and I unfortunately do not have a clue. When I look under braille preferences, the item that's highlighted is Humanware. I think the item above it, the one that lists Humanware, American Printing House, and others, is the one where if I try to activate it, I get an error message. I'm having another issue with my mantis that is kind of weird but funny. I have one rogue dot. It will stay in the up position, and there's nothing I can do to get it to go down. Then, one fine day and all on its own, the dot has gone, only to resurface at some other time. I feel like I need to give the thing a name.
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Ricky Engerricky_enger@mindly.social
Aug 5, 2026, 9:38 PM
@Lisasali Try just setting it to automatic, and see if NVDA will recognize it properly. I'm also wondering if it will behave differently via USB and Bluetooth.
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Lisa SalingerLisasali@mindly.social
Aug 5, 2026, 10:13 PM
@ricky_enger it is set to just automatic, and it is not recognizing anything. It may work via USB, but that is of little use to me because it is not really how I use it. It's great for diagnostics though. I think this all started after I uninstalled a problematic add-on. I may just try reinstalling the whole shooting match because I have come to the end of my resources as far as knowing what to test next.
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Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦NoahCarver@caneandable.social
Aug 5, 2026, 10:02 PM
@Lisasali Wait, shouldn't you be using the Humanware driver for the Mantis? Memory is a bit foggy--I use Linux now--but something sounds wrong about that config.
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