I work with a handy tech basic braille 40 and a braille sense qwerty and one of those little humanware ereaders from the nls. The no screen thing was on the latest arch iso as I mentioned in my first message. I have lightdm and mate installed, with xorg, no wayland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pranav Lal" <[email protected]> To: "'Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.'" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:50:31 +0530 Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken
> Rob, > > I am on arch linux and am not seeing this. What braille display do you have? > What is your software stack like? > > I am running arch linux bare metal with wayland, gnome and mate installed. > > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rob Hudson > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 7:22 AM > To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. > <[email protected]> > Subject: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken > > 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. > What has been so severely broken in BRLTTY these days to make it almost > unusable? > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
