[BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

[Rob Hudson]

I added those lines to the brltty.conf file. Unplugged my display. Killed all brltty processes. Replugged the display and tried to get into a console. Unplugged display, re-killed all processes. No log file was created. The path I used was /var/log/brltty.log

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc>
To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <brltty at brltty.app>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:49:53 -0500
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

> [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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