Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-11-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mariusz Gronczewski, on Thu 13 Oct 2016 13:06:22 +0200, wrote: > Looks like it came from installer: Ok, that makes sense. > in what circumstances installer starts brltty ? When udev detects a usb device looking like a braille device. The problem is that we have a few generic entries: 040

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-10-13 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
2016-10-13 0:08 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault : > Mariusz Gronczewski, on Thu 13 Oct 2016 00:03:18 +0200, wrote: >> Hard to tell, server in question was installed from preseed file and >> it was only one having that package... > > Ok, perhaps /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/installer/syslog would show >

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-10-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mariusz Gronczewski, on Thu 13 Oct 2016 00:03:18 +0200, wrote: > Hard to tell, server in question was installed from preseed file and > it was only one having that package... Ok, perhaps /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/installer/syslog would show the circumstances where it got installed? Samuel

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-10-12 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
2016-10-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault : > Hello, > That's still one of the things we'd need to determine. > > apt-cache rdepends brltty > > doesn't show anything that depends on or recommends brltty, > except brltty-{espeak,flite,speechd}, which nobody depends on or > recommends. When removin

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-10-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mariusz Gronczewski, on Wed 12 Oct 2016 15:18:46 +0200, wrote: > At this points it grabs devices that are definitely NOT a generic > non-customized FTDI device, for example it grabbed my USB<->1wire > adapter which had "manufacturer" and "product" field customized: Oh, I didn't know about

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2016-10-12 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
At this points it grabs devices that are definitely NOT a generic non-customized FTDI device, for example it grabbed my USB<->1wire adapter which had "manufacturer" and "product" field customized: Device: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC Device

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2014-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Borja Duran, le Wed 03 Sep 2014 15:45:10 +0200, a écrit : > I'm having the same issue on debian jessie (up to date), fresh install > (today), > kde desktop. > > Couldn't use my serial port till I uninstalled brltty. Well, the question is still the same: how did brltty end up getting inst

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2014-09-03 Thread Borja Duran
Package: brltty Followup-For: Bug #667616 Dear Maintainer, I'm having the same issue on debian jessie (up to date), fresh install (today), kde desktop. Couldn't use my serial port till I uninstalled brltty. My log on dmesg; [ ...] usb 1-1.2: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by ftdi_sio while 'brltty'

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection [ OFF TOPIC: gnome/gnome-orca dependencies pull brltty unacassarly ]

2012-06-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Witold Baryluk, le Sat 09 Jun 2012 02:13:07 +0200, a écrit : > gnome-desktop-environment is obsolate meta-package, but it Depends just > on gnome package, which Depends on gnome-orca, which Recommends (IMHO > should be just Suggests) brltty-x11, No. It should instead recommend xbrlapi, which was

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection [ OFF TOPIC: gnome/gnome-orca dependencies pull brltty unacassarly ]

2012-06-08 Thread Witold Baryluk
On 05-23 15:04, Jason White wrote: > Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have > > similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d > > printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And > > b

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Wed 23 May 2012 20:43:39 +1000, a écrit : > Mario Lang wrote: > > > BRLTTY should be installable by default without giving anyone trouble, > > thats one of your really big goals for long term. > > That's fine, but meanwhile the only solution is not to install it. > > In general

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-05-23 Thread Jason White
Mario Lang wrote: > BRLTTY should be installable by default without giving anyone trouble, > thats one of your really big goals for long term. That's fine, but meanwhile the only solution is not to install it. In general, I don't think BRLTTY should be installed unless the user explicitly inst

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lang
Jason White writes: > Witold Baryluk wrote: > >> I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have >> similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d >> printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And brltty >> installed auto

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-05-22 Thread Jason White
Witold Baryluk wrote: > I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have > similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d > printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And brltty > installed automatically on some upgrade du

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-05-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: brltty Version: 4.3-3 Followup-For: Bug #667616 Hi, I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And brltty installed au

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Arthur Magill, le Thu 05 Apr 2012 15:43:29 +0200, a écrit : > >>Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? > > > >It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who > >use the braille devices with chips using that ID, making the computer > >completely unusable for the

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Mario Lang
Arthur Magill writes: > Hi Samuel, > >>> Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? >> >> It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who >> use the braille devices with chips using that ID, making the computer >> completely unusable for them, really not a good t

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Arthur Magill
Hi Samuel, Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who use the braille devices with chips using that ID, making the computer completely unusable for them, really not a good thing. True. But as it stands, it make

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 05 Apr 2012 14:26:26 +0100, a écrit : > Arthur Magill, le Thu 05 Apr 2012 13:10:27 +0200, a écrit : > > Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? > > It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who > use the braille devices with chips usin

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 667616 + wontfix thanks Hello, Arthur Magill, le Thu 05 Apr 2012 13:10:27 +0200, a écrit : > Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who use the braille devices with chips using that ID, making the computer com

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Arthur Magill
Package: brltty Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I discovered this bug when connecting a Prologix GPIB-USB device to my computer. Internally, the device uses the common FTDI USB-RS232 bridge. When I connect the device, brltty takes control of the serial port, forcing the ftdi_sio driver to dr