[BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

[Rob Hudson]

I work with a handy tech basic braille 40 and a braille sense qwerty and one of those little humanware ereaders from the nls.
The no screen thing was on the latest arch iso as I mentioned in my first message.
I have lightdm and mate installed, with xorg, no wayland.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav at techesoterica.com>
To: "'Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.'" <brltty at brltty.app>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:50:31 +0530
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

> Rob,
>
> I am on arch linux and am not seeing this. What braille display do you have?
> What is your software stack like?
>
> I am running arch linux bare metal with wayland, gnome and mate installed.
>
> Pranav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Rob Hudson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 7:22 AM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> <brltty at brltty.app>
> Subject: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken
>
> 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.
> What has been so severely broken in BRLTTY these days to make it almost
> unusable?
>
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