[BRLTTY] the xw driver does not display

[Samuel Thibault]

timothyhobbs at seznam.cz, le Mon 13 Feb 2012 00:19:23 +0100, a écrit :
> Neither the subversion version of xw, nor the stable version seem to work.  Syslog has this to say:
> 
> # cat /var/log/syslog.log
> Feb 12 13:31:02 localhost syslog-ng[402]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration;
> Feb 12 20:06:44 localhost syslog-ng[402]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.3.4'
> Feb 12 20:07:31 localhost syslog-ng[423]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.3.4'
> 
> Doesn't seem to be rellivant.

Indeed, check the other log files.

Or you can just pass -n -e to brltty to make it emit messages on stderr.

> ./apitest
> Connecting to BrlAPI... failed to connect to :0 using auth /etc/brlapi.key: connect: Adresář nebo soubor neexistuje
> (The file or directory does not exist)
> 
> I'm not really sure why this appeared.  Especially since /etc/brlapi.key DOES exist.  Perhaps it's due to permissions?
> 
> ls -l /etc/brlapi.key 
> -rw------- 1 root root 33 12. úno 20.38 /etc/brlapi.key
> 
> User does not have read permissions for that file.

User needs to have read permissions on the key to be able to connect to brlapi.

Samuel