Re: brltty patch question

[Christopher Moore <christopher h moore verizon net>]

Mario,
Thanks for the help.  The brltty install only gives root access to the
brlapi-key file.  Since I'm starting from a user account, I changed the
permissions and got in fine.
Chris
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:51:27AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Christopher Moore <christopher h moore verizon net> writes:
> 
> > I've installed 2.3, patched gnopernicus with Mario's patch and attemping to
> > use the brl display in gnome.  I get the following:
> >
> > unable to load authentication key: /etc/brltty/brlapi-key
> > Error opening brlapi connection
> > brl_open_device: open device failed
> > ** BRAILLE initialization failed for BRLTTY on port 1
> 
> > I have a key file which was creeated by the brltty install.  It
> > looks like a string of hex characters.
> Where did you install brltty to?  The brlapi-key file needs to be
> readable by the user starting Gnopernicus, and is expected to be
> found in /etc/brltty/brlapi-key.
> 
> > Also what does port 1 mean? my display is on /dev/ttyS1.  
> 
> The Port is ignored, since that is already taken care of by brltty's
> configuration settings.
> 
> -- 
> CYa,
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