I'm able to cat the brlapi.key file. My user is in the sudo group and the file is associated with root. Can you think of anything else I might check? Thanks.
On 7/6/16, Mike Gorse <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Dave Mielke wrote: > >>> I'm using a Vinux VM on my Mac. BRLTTY displays the message in the >>> subject line instead of what's on the screen. How do I fix it? >> >> Brltty shows "screen not in text mode" when your system is switched to a >> graphical console and a graphical screen reader (like Orca) isn't running. >> In >> your case, my guess is that your system is booting to an X console. I >> suspect >> that what you need to do is to switch to a text console. > > It might also mean that orca isn't able to authenticate with brltty, since > orca interacts with brltty through an API that requires authentication. > Authentication can be done in several ways, and I'm not sure how vinux > does things, but normally your user needs to be able to read > /etc/brlapi.key. It is likely that that file is group-readable, so make > sure that your user is a member of the group that brlapi.key is associated > with. > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > 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://mielke.cc/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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
