[BRLTTY] permissions on the brlapi.key file

[kendell clark]

hi

This helped a bundle! I've updated our package build script to copy the 
policy file into /usr/share/polkit-1/actions, and braille now works. The 
only minor problem is that I have to restart brltty once each time the 
machine is booted, or the display stays on "screen not in text mode". 
Once I do that all works fine.  It's also worth nothing that brltty 
works absolutely fine in the text console as soon as it's started, you 
only need to restart it for it to work successfully in x with orca. 
Could this maybe be a bug? I'm seeing no errors in the logs, only 
successful startup messages, and detection of the hims braille sense. It 
does say usb descriptor not found, 1.0, but I don't really understand 
what that means but it obviously doesn't keep the display from working. 
This is much much easier than the brlapi method, thank you to whoever 
implemented it. Not that I'm saying it's better than the brlapi method, 
they both have their uses, just that this is more ... mmm ... plug and 
play, and uses polkit to decide how things work.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 08/29/2016 08:23 PM, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Hi Kendall,
>
> I just remembered that the Makefile might not automatically install 
> the policy file. You might need to manually copy 
> Authorization/Polkit/org.brltty.policy to a place where polkit would 
> expect to find it (/usr/share/polkit-1/actions perhaps).
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, kendell clark wrote:
>
>> hi
>>
>> This I have now done. The only problem is that there doesn't seem to 
>> be any braille output. Looking in the logs, brltty is syncing with 
>> polkit but polkit might be denying me access, and I'm the only user 
>> logged in. This is after a reboot. I've uncommented the line that 
>> configures brltty to use polkit, is there anything else I need to do?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kendell Clark
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