[BRLTTY] HIMS BrailleSense 6 scrolling issues on Debian 13, Ubuntu

[Paul Scott]

Apologies for the inconvenience, I accidentally replied to the
wrong message.
I am using Debian 13 Trixie. So, I have solved the build  problem by
installing the ncurs packages: curses-base, ncurses-bin, ncurses-doc,
ncurses-examples, ncurses-hexedit, ncurses-term

However, when I execute the run-brltty comand root and without root, I get
group not joined
BRLTTY 6.8 rev BRLTTY-6.8-400-g62d32265 [https://brltty.app/]
brltty: can't isolate namespaces
brltty: executing as the invoking user: root
brltty: can't set supplementary groups
brltty: group not joined: 5(tty)
brltty: group not joined: 20(dialout)
brltty: group not joined: 29(audio)
brltty: group not joined: 996(input)

And, when I check for service status, it seems that brltty is not running,
and also  ther are no starting message on the braille display.  Is there
anything I am missing?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2026/01/17 at 15:30 -0500]
>
> >Are you able to build brltty in order to test possible fixes?
>
> Actually, you mentioned, earlier, that you tried resolving your problem by
> building brltty so I think you can. I've created a new branch - hims-scroll
> - and would appreciate it if you could build brltty on that branch to see
> if your scroll keys now work. Please make sure that, after switching to the
> new branch, you do all the initial steps:
>
>    make distclean
>    ./autogen
>    ./configure
>
> Something to note is that you don't need to install the newly built brltty
> in order to test it. Instead, use the run-brltty script in the top-level
> directory. It takes exactly the same options as brltty itself and will run
> brltty from within your build tree.
>
> Please, when you do the test, capture a log as before and post it so that
> I can have a look at it.
>
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