[BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Rob Hudson on 2025/11/11 at 19:51 -0600]

>Using BRLTTY 6.8 on arch linux with systemd version 258.11
>First of all, on my lightdm login screen, it now says, no screen. However, I don't have orca speaking, either, so this is probably a lightdm issue.
>However, on the arch iso, latest version archlinux-2025.11.01-x86_64, I have no braille either; it says, no screen, at the prompt. If I was strictly a braille user, I would not be able to use BRLTTY to do anything, here.
>In addition, once logged in to my installed system, and I try to switch to a console, nothing changes on my braille display. It simply shows the last thing orca sent it.
>I took the udev rules from BRLTTY 6.7 and put them in /etc/udev/rules.d and reloaded udev. No change.

Could you please send us a log file to look at? It's impossible to guess at what such a problem might be from a general description. To create the log, add these two lines to your brltty.conf:

   log-level debug
   log-file /path/to/logfile

>What has been so severely broken in BRLTTY these days to make it almost unusable?

Nothing. It isn't broken although something new in the way arch is doing things may have broken it for your environment. That's why we need to see a log.

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