I added those lines to the brltty.conf file. Unplugged my display. Killed all brltty processes. Replugged the display and tried to get into a console. Unplugged display, re-killed all processes. No log file was created. The path I used was /var/log/brltty.log
----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Mielke <[email protected]> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:49:53 -0500 Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken > [quoted lines by Rob Hudson on 2025/11/11 at 19:51 -0600] > > >Using BRLTTY 6.8 on arch linux with systemd version 258.11 > >First of all, on my lightdm login screen, it now says, no screen. However, I > >don't have orca speaking, either, so this is probably a lightdm issue. > >However, on the arch iso, latest version archlinux-2025.11.01-x86_64, I have > >no braille either; it says, no screen, at the prompt. If I was strictly a > >braille user, I would not be able to use BRLTTY to do anything, here. > >In addition, once logged in to my installed system, and I try to switch to a > >console, nothing changes on my braille display. It simply shows the last > >thing orca sent it. > >I took the udev rules from BRLTTY 6.7 and put them in /etc/udev/rules.d and > >reloaded udev. No change. > > Could you please send us a log file to look at? It's impossible to guess at > what such a problem might be from a general description. To create the log, > add these two lines to your brltty.conf: > > log-level debug > log-file /path/to/logfile > > >What has been so severely broken in BRLTTY these days to make it almost > >unusable? > > Nothing. It isn't broken although something new in the way arch is doing > things may have broken it for your environment. That's why we need to see a > log. > > -- > I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ > EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke > Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://mielke.cc/xmother.html (Letter from a Feminist ex-Mother) > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
