[BRLTTY] speech dispatcher open failure

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2020/10/20 at 07:13 -0400]

>Okay, I can reproduce it. The failing call is:
>
>   spd_open("brltty", "main", NULL, SPD_MODE_THREADED)
>
>It's returning NULL without any errors being written (not even in
>/var/log/messages). I'll keep looking but will definitely appreciate help from
>anyone who knows speech dispatcher better than I do.

Figured it out. Speech Dispatcher seems to need to be root. In other words, it
immediately began to work as soon as I told brltty to remain privileged.

Anyone: Please let me know if there's a way to let it run as a regular user.

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