[BRLTTY] Help after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, continued

[S. Massy]

Hello,
I have not recovered braille output on my system after passing nomodeset
as a boot parameter. X still not coming up but at least I have direct
access.
Thank you for your help.
S.M.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 02:51:00PM -0500, S. Massy wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:37:25PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > [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:
> It is using systemd, I've not updated my terminology and am betraying my age. :)
> > 
> >    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:
> Bizarre. Chvt just hangs.
> I can cat /dev/vcsa and see the content of the console, so that at least is working...
> 
> > 
> >    chvt 2
> > 
> > >I've force brltty and brltty-x11 to reinstall 
> In desperation we try the most foolish of solutions. :)
> 
> > 
> > That shouldn't matter.
> > 
> > >and also reconfigured console-data 
> I just ran dpkg-reconfigure and made sure options looked sane.
> 
> > 
> > From what to what?
> > 
> > >without any sign of improvement. I admit I'm a little baffled at this point.
> > 
> It looks okay. I started the sleep command as a marker just to make sure. See below:
> root        1856  0.0  0.0   7128  4512 tty1     Ss   14:35   0:00 /bin/login -p --
> smassy      2756  0.0  0.0  11908  5632 tty1     S    14:36   0:00 -bash
> smassy      2922  0.0  0.0   8304  1920 tty1     S+   14:36   0:00 sleep 600
> 
> Thanks,
> S.M.
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