[BRLTTY] is it safe to upgrade to fedora 45?

[Jason J.G. White]

Dave Mielke via BRLTTY <brltty at brltty.app> wrote:
>[quoted lines by Halim Sahin via BRLTTY on 2026/10/27 at 16:35 +0100]

>>Does brltty work with kmscon in fedora 45?
>
>No, it doesn't. At least, I'm unaware of any work that has been done, is being done, or is planneed for this. That being said, all is not lost!
>

There was some discussion of defining a protocol for this and similar 
terminal applications, with a proposal circulated on the mailing list, 
but nothing further has been said publicly since then.

>Th old method - fbcon - is still built into the Fedora 45 kernel and, as near as I can tell, will continue to be retained for some time to come. Also, it's possible to revert a Fedora 45 system back to using fbcon. I dn't think, however, that it's possible to tell dnf system-upgrade to tell Fedora 45 to initially boot to an fbco-configured system. I believe, therefore, that reverting it to fbcon will require sighted assistance. :-(

I expect you could ensure sshd is configured and working, then log in 
from a second machine to complete the configuration. However, anyone 
without a second machine is obviously in difficulty, unless Fedora boots 
to a graphical desktop environment with Orca running, which I assume 
still works with BRLTTY even without the kernel-levl console. Then run 
GNOME-Terminal and set up the console support.