I have been helping a friend get brltty working with fedora and I am happy to test code changes and gather more info to help fix this.
Is this a problem that has a known fix? I raised a bug against fedora that brltty does not work. The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515424 To save looking at bugzilla the details of the bug are: Description of problem: brltty works to allow the braille display to be show the login: and password: prompt. But after that that brltty reports an error and the braille display no long updates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora is packaging brltty-5.5-8.fc27.x86_64. There are a couple of trivia patches. One to fix an include path, the other for java. The systemd uses the following for brltty. [Unit] Description=Braille display driver for Linux/Unix [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/bin/brltty [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect braille display to USB port 2. check that braille display has been initialised. (display shows message from brltty) 3. check that the login: prompt is present 4. enter username 5. check that the password: prompt is present 6 enter password 7. braille display reports that brltty cannot get the screen And here is the log from journalctl -u brltty for the above: Nov 18 14:29:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Braille display driver for Linux/Unix... Nov 18 14:29:14 localhost.localdomain brltty[808]: BRLTTY 5.5 rev unknown [http://brltty.com/] Nov 18 14:29:14 localhost.localdomain brltty[808]: BRLTTY 5.5 rev unknown [http://brltty.com/] Nov 18 14:29:14 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Braille display driver for Linux/Unix. Nov 18 14:29:16 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:17 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: Linux Screen Driver: Nov 18 14:29:17 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: NoSpeech Speech Driver: Nov 18 14:29:19 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:24 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:29 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:32 localhost.localdomain brltty[833]: console control error 5: fd=8 vt=1 op=0X5603: Input/output error Nov 18 14:29:34 hostname brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:22 hostname brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:22 hostname brltty[833]: console control error 5: fd=16 vt=1 op=0X5603: Input/output error Nov 18 14:29:27 hostname brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:32 hostname brltty[833]: DBus error: get bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to connect to socket /run/ dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denie Nov 18 14:29:32 hostname brltty[833]: ioctl[VT_GETSTATE] error 13: Permission denied. Barry _______________________________________________ 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
