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

[Paul Scott]

Hi, I was able to build the brltty with the instructions provided. The
scroll keys worked. Here is the log:
The keys are: left scroll up, left scroll down, right scroll up, right
scroll down, right scroll up, left scroll down+right scroll down.

Side question: Would this also solve the scrolling problem with Google
TalkBack? I assume they are using brltty as well. Thank you for your hel.

On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [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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