[BRLTTY] Screen not in text mode

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Are you sure orca is running?
Go to another console and type ps afxwww|grep orca and see if you get an
orca process.

Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm able to cat the brlapi.key file. My user is in the sudo group and
> the file is associated with root. Can you think of anything else I
> might check? Thanks.
> 
> On 7/6/16, Mike Gorse <mgorse at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Dave Mielke wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm using a Vinux VM on my Mac. BRLTTY displays the message in the
> >>> subject line instead of what's on the screen. How do I fix it?
> >>
> >> Brltty shows "screen not in text mode" when your system is switched to a
> >> graphical console and a graphical screen reader (like Orca) isn't running.
> >> In
> >> your case, my guess is that your system is booting to an X console. I
> >> suspect
> >> that what you need to do is to switch to a text console.
> >
> > It might also mean that orca isn't able to authenticate with brltty, since
> > orca interacts with brltty through an API that requires authentication.
> > Authentication can be done in several ways, and I'm not sure how vinux
> > does things, but normally your user needs to be able to read
> > /etc/brlapi.key. It is likely that that file is group-readable, so make
> > sure that your user is a member of the group that brlapi.key is associated
> > with.
> >
> > -Mike
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