Hi Brandt, on Fedora, how about sudo systemctl start brltty ? Eventually you might also want to s/start/enable/ to make it start automatically.
Best, Vladimir On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:10 PM Brandt Steenkamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I did a bit of a distro hop while the display whent in for it's medical, > and, still being on Fedora at the time, I thought I'd see if I can stay > with it for a while. > > > Unfortunately I got a few errors after plugging the display in to the > laptop, and finding that the Braille didn't come up automatically as I > am use to. > > > I tried starting BRLTTY, as root > > > $ sudo brltty > > > and that's when my issues started. > > > I got a rather long list of errors, most of them in the line of "you are > not a member of, so and so group; do something about it" > > > unfortunately, I don't have the inclination to try and fix stuff I know > work somewhere else already. > > > My issue is as follows, why do those of us that actually rely on Braille > to get stuff done have to "fix" something that, for those that only use > speech is no issue at all. > > > Please note, I am a grateful user of BRLTTY, just tired of having to > fight to get my stuff to work. > > > Another example of unneeded hardship, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I cannot use my > display at all in that distro, since they ship BRLTTY 6.0 which doesn't > support the BrailleOne from Humanware. > > > Why, oh why? > > > Sorry for my rant on a topic that is rather close to my heart. > > -- > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > Sent from Slint Linux using Thunderbird > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > -- Vladimír Slávik <[email protected]> Software Engineer, Platform Engineering Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
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