[BRLTTY] LFS & BRLTTY SVN setup problem

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Thu Aug 23 19:51:03 EDT 2007


[quoted lines by Georgina Joyce on 2007/08/23 at 22:37 +0100]

>There may be some helpful brltty logs in /var/log/messages.
>
>I looked but didn't have a messages logfile.  However, I found in syslog:

Okay ... it's called something different on the distribution you're using. :-)

>Aug 23 22:29:40 orchid brltty[1434]: cannot open device: /dev/vcsa:
>Permission denied

This message indicates that you're probably invoking brltty as a regular user
rather than as root. Please try invoking it as root.

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