[BRLTTY] Nos braille ouput through Orca since 6.2

[Didier Spaier]

Le 16/02/2021 à 21:06, Dave Mielke a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2021/02/16 at 20:11 +0100]
> 
>> I had to revert upgrades of the brltty package for Slint because users
>> complained about the lack of Braille output in Mate through Orca in versions
>> 6.2 and 6.3.
> 
> Do you mean that brltty is running but there's no braille on the display, or do
> you mean that brltty isn't running?

brltty is running.

> I don't think it has anything to do with privileges. How is brltty running
> within a text console?

Fine.

>> If possible I'd rather take the time to weigh the benefit/risks at the
>> before doing change of the default configuration at the distribution level
> 
> Brltty, as always, runs just fine with full privileges. It's just that some
> people feel very strongly that things should always be running with as little
> privilege as is absolutely needed.
> 
>> So my question for is: how can I upgrade the package to provide the same
>> features as 6.1 for now, leaving the new features like running brltty as a
>> regular user for a future upgrade? I have in mind asking this that providing
>> new features could need to not only modify the package but also our
>> installer.
> 
> 6.3 should do exactly that.
> 
> The best way to capture a log is to use -l (lowercase) to say what you want to
> log and to use -L (uppercase) to specify the log file. You could start,
> therefore, by adding these two options in brltty_start():
> 
>     -ldebug -L/path/to/brltty.log

Will try that again, thanks. Actually I already did but nothing obvious 
for me came up. What should I look for more specifically, please?