[BRLTTY] speech dispatcher open failure

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le mar. 20 oct. 2020 07:33:39 -0400, a ecrit:
> [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.

It should be working fine as a regular user. Otherwise it's a problem in
its startup, and more information will be available in the logs, in 
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/speech-dispatcher/log

Samuel