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

[Paul Scott]

Hi, I have tryed the command wih -Z with and without roots, and with sudo.
For some reason, I get
brltty: can't isolate namespaces
brltty: executing as the invoking user: clover
brltty: group not joined: 0(root)
brltty: group not joined: 5(tty)
brltty: group not joined: 20(dialout)
brltty: group not joined: 29(audio)
brltty: group not joined: 996(input)

Only error I get when building it after running Tool/reqpkg -i:
reqpkgs: packages needed: 41
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional
context:
   Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
   1. libtinfo6:amd64=6.4-4 is not selected for install
   2. libtinfo6:amd64=6.4-4 is selected as a downgrade because:
      1. libncursesw5-dev:amd64=6.4-4 is selected for install
      2. libncursesw5-dev:amd64 Depends libtinfo6 (= 6.4-4)

Currently, I don't have access ot a USB drive to install a
different distor, we may need to revisit this problem at end of the March.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Paul Scott on 2026/02/04 at 12:48 -0600]
>
> >Apologies for the inconvenience, I accidentally replied to the
> >wrong message.
>
> There's no need to apologize. I read your message, which is all that
> matters.
>
> >I have solved the build  problem by
> >installing the ncurs packages: curses-base, ncurses-bin, ncurses-doc,
> >ncurses-examples, ncurses-hexedit, ncurses-term
>
> It doesn't hurt to be thorough but I bet ncurses-term was all you needed.
>
> >However, when I execute the run-brltty comand root and without root, I get
> >group not joined
>
> Try one of these approaches:
>
> * Log in as root and run it.
> * Run it via sudo but add brltty's -z option. So: sudo run-brltty -z
>
> >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?
>
> That's fine and is expected as you aren't invoking the installed brltty
> via systemd.
>
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