[BRLTTY] trouble with orca and braille

[Simon Eigeldinger]

Hi,

it was.
i did a
$ sudo chmod 777 /etc/brlapi.key

and now my handy tech braille star 40 seems to be happy.

thanks.

greetings,
simon



Am 19.06.2016 um 02:06 schrieb 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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