[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version

[Amanda Lacy]

It's a huge log file. It appears that brltty tries to access certain
files e.g. USB and screen drivers and fails because it doesn't have
permission. Why might this happen?

On 7/17/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/17 at 17:25 -0500]
>
>>The patch seemed to work and brltty seems to be installed,
>
> Good. Two things:
>
> I think the make file problem wasn't caught till now because most people do
>
> "make" and "make install" as two separate steps. You were just doing "make
> install", i.e. all in one step, which is fine and should work. I'm glad this
>
> was finally found and is now fixed.
>
> The best way to get the up-to-date set of configure options is to ask
> configure
> itself. You can do that with the command:
>
>    ./configure --help
>
>>but the display now doesn't work at all. How can I find out why?
>
> we'll need to see a debug log. To create one, update your brltty.conf to
> contain these two lines:
>
>    log-file /path/to/logfile
>    log-level debug,inpkts,outpkts,brldrv,usb
>
> I've assumed usb, here. Replace it with Bluetooth or serial as appropriate.
>
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