[BRLTTY] Issue linking brlapi and orca.

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Sep 13 19:47:16 EDT 2017


Hello,

Didier Spaier, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 11:42:11 +0200, wrote:
> Le 13/09/2017 à 10:06, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > John Covici, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 03:59:06 -0400, wrote:
> >> Is the line in your /etc/brltty.conf uncommeted
> >> api-parameters Auth=keyfile:/etc/brlapi.key  # Require authentication
> >> key
> >>
> >> Its near the end of the file and is necessary for orca to work as of
> >> now.
> > 
> > ? That shouldn't be. Normally, either polkit or the keyfile is needed.
> > Which version seems to require that? I remember we had to fix it at some
> > point, but did a version got released with the issue?
> 
> Anyway uncommenting it doesn't help here.
> 
> I am ready to provide a log. How should I set the logging options?

Normally the logs should already contain the errors. It may still be
useful to pass -l server to brltty.

But just to make sure: is there really no /var/lib/BrlAPI/0 file?

Samuel


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