[BRLTTY] Permission errors on Linux with HID devices

Justin Pospical jpospical at fastmail.com
Sat Jul 30 17:25:41 EDT 2022


Sorry, these device files actually appear to be for the keyboard on the system I'm using. Not sure what's going on here, but I was premature in posting this question.

Justin

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022, at 14:02, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Justin Pospical on 2022/07/30 at 12:25 -0700]
>
>>Using brltty 6.5 on Arch, brltty logs "permission denied" errors when attempting to connect to my HID display (APH Chameleon 20). This seems to happen even when run directly as root, without brltty dropping privileges. The devices in question (/dev/hidraw0 and /dev/hidraw1) are present and readable by root. 
>
> They also need to be writable.
>
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