[BRLTTY] Help after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, continued

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by S. Massy on 2024/12/29 at 19:35 -0500]

>Once I type in my credentials, I can pipe the output of commands through
>espeak. I have also switched to runlevel 3 just to make sure and still
>the problem persists.

Very odd! Not being a Ubuntu user, I have no direct guesses as to what the problem might be.

I thought Ubuntu uses systemd so am wondering why you'd be referring to run levels. The systemd way to switch to a text mode boot is:

   systemctl set-default multi-user

>> Which console number does the fgconsole command say you're using?
>The output is "1".

The older convention, which I think Ubuntu uses, is for ttys 1 through 6 to be text consoles and for X to be on tty7. The newer convention, whch maybe Ubuntu has switched to, is to put X on tty1. Just to be absolutely sure, therefore, you might wish to try swithing to tty2. You can easily do that from ssh with this command:

   chvt 2

>I've force brltty and brltty-x11 to reinstall 

That shouldn't matter.

>and also reconfigured console-data 

From what to what?

>without any sign of improvement. I admit I'm a little baffled at this point.

Another possibility is that Ubuntu has switched to using a graphical console app for text consoles. While logged in to what you're sure is a text console, use ps via ssh to find out which processes are running on that tty.

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