[BRLTTY] "Can't access console"

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Wed 07 Nov 2007 08:13:25 -0500, a écrit :
> the problem is probably that brltty is running under a different 
> root than later so it has a different /dev than later.

Indeed, maybe we should try to chdir("/") in order to enter the real
/ ?

> Note that brltty does try to create them within the writable directory but it 
> won't be able to if that directory either doesn't exist or isn't writable.

Mario could try to mkdir it in the initrd, just to see if it works.

> >Additionally, when I start a brlapi client, it can not
> >connect to brltty if it was started from initramfs, I also
> >have to restart brltty to make brlapi clients work.
> >Maybe this is related to the first issue, or not.
> 
> Probably, again, because the socket file is created within a different root 
> file system.

Yes, though since the BrlAPI directory doesn't exist it won't be
created.

> Perhaps using a tcp socket instead would get around this one.

That should work, yes.

Samuel