[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Mon Jul 18 15:54:52 EDT 2016
[quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 14:34 -0500]
>It's a huge log file.
Yes, it's huge! It didn't make it through to the list (due to its size) but I
have it.
>It appears that brltty tries to access certain
>files e.g. USB and screen drivers and fails because it doesn't have
>permission. Why might this happen?
It looks like you aren't running brltty as root. Please give that a try.
For the benefit of the curious, the permission failures include devices under
/dev/usb/bus/ as well as the /dev/vcsa* devices.
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