[BRLTTY] brlapi without terminal (when raw is not supported)
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Aug 11 16:47:37 EDT 2016
Hello,
Michael Katzmann, on Sat 23 Jul 2016 20:17:49 -0400, wrote:
> When I execute the test program I am told that the driver doesn't support 'raw'
> mode.
>
> brltty: isRawCapable(trueBraille) not met: driver doesn't support Raw mode
Yes, most drivers don't. That's not a problem for braille output, it's
only needed for e.g. file transfer applications.
> I need to run the program with root privilages even though I am in the 'brlapi'
> group. Why would that be ?
>
> $ ./brlAPItest
> brlapi_openConnection: Authentication failed
Is the /etc/brlapi.key file available for read to the brlapi group? Is
brltty using it too? (please post your brltty.conf)
Samuel
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