[BRLTTY] Is brltty accidentally holding the device longer?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2006/10/12 at 14:36 -0400]

>-r seems to have done it. I'll add an alias brltty='brltty -r' to my 
>startup scripts. This seems kind of unwieldy but at least it gets the job 
>done. 

What are the collective opinions on what the default for device releasing
should be? I thought it should be off since that'd be the least messing around
with the display, and, therefore, the least likely to generate an unexpected
problem.

>Could there perhaps be something in brltty.conf? 

You should be able to say "release-device yes".

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