On Tuesday 21 May 2019 04:29:55 am you wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-05-21 04:17 (UTC-0400): > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? > > Past bedtime. Google knew: > https://github.com/brltty/brltty > "BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) providing access to the > Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a > refreshable braille display."
daytime again, and time to file a bug report, something I've not tried to negotiate since my last mind numbing encounter with the dumbest software out there, bugzilla. It, brltty, should not disable /dev/ttyUSB# when its running. Thats what gave it away, when I couldn't make heyu run. The CM-11a is a serial device, with a 4 pin telco plug on one end of its cable, and a db-9 for a simple serial port on the other, but since the serial port is already occupied, a usb to serial adapter is used and that creates a /dev/ttyUSBnumber according to how many there might be. But between the CM-11a complaining that it needed serviced as it had stale data (about 2 weeks worth) to report, it hadn't had since wheezy, and brltty's erroring on the CM-11a data it sends once a second till it gets serviced when it has some status change to report, /dev/ttyUSB0 was being destroyed about 1 second after it was created, I assume by the CM-11a data being sent to udev as a string of errors instead of being given to heyu which has an automatic response to that sort of incoming data. This to me is a bug that needs fixed. No sense in denying someone using braile facilities being denied the use of such adapters. Thats discriminatory. And its a bug that could potentially generate a lawsuit. So I'm going to add the debian-user list to the CC: Maybe someone else with more experience at navigating their way thru bugzilla can do it based on what I've written here. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
