[BRLTTY] braille display continuously cycles when brltty is started

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

OK, how woulld I specify to stay as root in the brltty.conf?

Also, here is the log, there is a lot, but you should see it cycling.
https://vault.bitwarden.com/#/send/eyb8SQoCtEq8YbOIAJsWDw/RLTglQzBbxpzK36quaRDsQ


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> 
Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2025 3:39 AM
To: covici at ccs.covici.com; Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. <brltty at brltty.app>
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] braille display continuously cycles when brltty is started

[quoted lines by John Covici on 2025/10/31 at 02:32 -0400]

>BRLTTY-6.8-14-g843310af+ the Braille display kept  cycling for several
>minutes.  Its a Humanware bi40x.  I rebooted the display and it still
>did not work, but after a while the cycling stopped and it settled
>down -- any idea why this would be happening?

No. We'd need a log to analyze. There's no point in guessing when no other users (that we know of) of the same driver aren't having such a problem.

>Also, I would still liike to start it as root, where would I put and
>what is the syntax  of the parameter 

I'm not sure how you're starting it now. If it's already not starting as root then you'll need to figure out what to do within your own environment. If, however, it's starting as root and then dropping to being unprivileged then you could add the -z - --stay-privileged - command line option. This can also be specified within brltty.conf.

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