[BRLTTY] Britty bug?

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Wed Mar 15 11:46:16 EDT 2023


Then you could just request a a backport for 22.04, as there is one for Debian
bullseye:
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye-backports/brltty

(or switch to Debian ;)

Cheers,
Didier

Le 15/03/2023 à 16:24, Life in Six Dots a écrit :
> Just to chime in. From my own experience only Ubuntu 22.10 is running BRLTTY
> 6.5. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is currently running BRLTTY 6.4.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Dave Mielke
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> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Britty bug?
> 
> [quoted lines by SamB on 2023/03/15 at 07:09 -0700]
> 
>> I am a software developer using a Ubuntu Linux machine and I have found 
>> evidence that your Britty software for the blind is somehow preventing 
>> my machine from creating virtual paths (i.e. /dev/ttyUSB0) for 
>> connections to USB to UART bridge controllers.
> 
> Yes, this is a known issue. It's been dealt with, as well as can be done, in
> 6.5 so maybe you're using an older version of brltty. The solution was to
> put the udev rules for braille devices which use uncustomized, generic, USB
> to serial adapters into a separate, optional package. The solution,
> therefore, would simply be to not install (or to remove) that optional
> package.
> 
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