[BRLTTY] Intermittent Failure

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by wmichaelb at fuse.net on 2019/09/03 at 09:39 -0400]

>My blind friend is beginning to have difficulty getting his 
>PowerBraille 80 to work. It either works or doesn't, but will 
>do so if he reboots two or three times. He's running Debian 9, 
>using the brltty driver from the Debian repositories, and the 
>system is current and fully updated. When it works, it does 
>so perfectly, so I don't suspect hardware. Does anyone have 
>a suggestion on where to begin troubleshooting? 

Is a specific driver (via the -b option or the braille-driver brltty.conf
directive) being specified? If not then autodetection might be the cause. A
Power Braille would need the TSI driver so try specifying the -bts (drivers
have two-letter codes) option.

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