[BRLTTY] trouble with orca and braille

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Sounds like a permission error to me.

Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger at vol.at> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just tried to use braille with my sonar mate installation.
> seems with a braille display you might not have much luck on the desktop.
> brltty recognizes my display showing the message "screen not in text
> mode". even with braille activated in orca.
> anyone has experience with orca and braille?
> 
> 
> Here's the orca debug message:
> 
> 
> Could not initialize BrlTTY:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca/braille.py", line 1711,
> in init
>     _brlAPI = brlapi.Connection()
>   File "brlapi.pyx", line 302, in brlapi.Connection.__init__
> (brlapi.auto.c:4804)
> brlapi.ConnectionError: couldn't connect to b':0' with key
> b'/etc/brlapi.key': b'Authentication failed'
> (brlerrno 17, libcerrno 13, gaierrno 0)
> Authentication failed. Please check you can read b'/etc/brlapi.key'
> and it is not empty.
> 
> 
> the file isn't empty. it contains a key.
> 
> greetings,
> simon
> 
> 
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