[BRLTTY] BRLTTY in Fedora

[Vladimir Slavik]

Hi Brandt,
on Fedora, how about sudo systemctl start brltty ? Eventually you might
also want to s/start/enable/ to make it start automatically.

Best,
Vladimir

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:10 PM Brandt Steenkamp <brandt.steenkamp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I did a bit of a distro hop while the display whent in for it's medical,
> and, still being on Fedora at the time, I thought I'd see if I can stay
> with it for a while.
>
>
> Unfortunately I got a few errors after plugging the display in to the
> laptop, and finding that the Braille didn't come up automatically as I
> am use to.
>
>
> I tried starting BRLTTY, as root
>
>
> $ sudo brltty
>
>
> and that's when my issues started.
>
>
> I got a rather long list of errors, most of them in the line of "you are
> not a member of, so and so group; do something about it"
>
>
> unfortunately, I don't have the inclination to try and fix stuff I know
> work somewhere else already.
>
>
> My issue is as follows, why do those of us that actually rely on Braille
> to get stuff done have to "fix" something that, for those that only use
> speech is no issue at all.
>
>
> Please note, I am a grateful user of BRLTTY, just tired of having to
> fight to get my stuff to work.
>
>
> Another example of unneeded hardship, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I cannot use my
> display at all in that distro, since they ship BRLTTY 6.0 which doesn't
> support the BrailleOne from Humanware.
>
>
> Why, oh why?
>
>
> Sorry for my rant on a topic that is rather close to my heart.
>
> --
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from Slint Linux using Thunderbird
>
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Vladimír Slávik <vslavik at redhat.com>
Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
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