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

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Paul Scott on 2026/02/08 at 11:02 -0600]

>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)

This shouldn't happen if you log in as root and run run-brltty directly. Could you please verify that you tried it exactly this way?

>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)
>

This should be fixable. First, could you try removing the libncursesw5-dev package? If that works then try installing libncurses-dev. If that works then edit Tools/reqpkgs.d/debian, find the line that says libncursesw5-dev, remove the w5 part, and save the file. Then run reqpkgs.

If all of this is successful then you'll need th configure brltty again to pick up the change. Then do the make.

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