[BRLTTY] ‘empty console’

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Sebastian Humenda wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Sebastian Humenda schrieb am 05.11.2019, 22:01 +0100:
> >on a freshly installed GNU/Linux system I am experiencing an ‚empty’ screen with BRLTTY.
> >After booting the machine, the braille display is empty and shows only the
> >blinking cursor. The screen shows the normal TTY log in prompt.
> 
> I have now had a chance to find out more about the issue. I can reproduce this
> both on a Debian 10 with Linux 4.19, or 5.2, as well as on an Ubuntu with
> Linux 5.3.
> As a temporary work-around, I have set the console font from „fixed” to
> terminus in the largest font. I wonder how this might affect /dev/vcsu.

Are you saying that this workaround "solved" the issue?

What if you add the following to your brltty.conf instead:

screen-parameters lx:unicode=no

# The
> Linux tty uses a framebuffer with an AMD GPU driver.

What messages related to "Console" or "framebuffer" or "fb0" do you get 
from the dmesg command after boot?


Nicolas