[BRLTTY] Screen not in text mode

[Devin Prater]

I think this may be the problem I’m having too, with both Orca and speechd-el. /ect/brlapi.key. Gotta remember that. So would I touch it, or use some other command for it? Open it in emacs? And, if I can’t read it, how would I make it readable? I’m using Arch linux, so it should have all the utils I’d need.
Sent from my Mac.

Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com



> On Jul 6, 2016, at 7:14 PM, 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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