Re: [orca-list] Another question about Orca and BRLTTY

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Francisco

it has been relased for Slint (well uploading right now...) and also for 
Debian buster-backport, bullseye and sid by Samuel.

For other distributions use the proper command for your distribution to 
know of make and internet seach with as argument
brltty <name of ten distribution> pacakage

If I start it as regular user I get:

didier[~]$ brltty
BRLTTY 6.3 rev BRLTTY-6.3 [http://brltty.app/]
brltty: can't isolate namespaces
brltty: exécution en tant que l'utilisateur appelant: didier
brltty: can't set supplementary groups
brltty: group not joined: 0(root)
brltty: group not joined: 5(tty)
brltty: group not joined: 16(dialout)
brltty: group not joined: 71(input)
brltty: required capability not granted: cap_sys_admin (for injecting 
input characters typed on a braille device)
brltty: required capability not granted: cap_sys_tty_config (for playing 
alert tunes via the built-in PC speaker)
brltty: required capability not granted: cap_mknod (for creating needed 
but missing special device files)

Indeed I would need my user and/or the braille group be granted more 
privileges to get all features.

But as root I get just:
root@darkstar:~# brltty
BRLTTY 6.3 rev BRLTTY-6.3 [http://brltty.app/]
brltty: exécution en tant que l'utilisateur appelant: root

as expected.

Cheers,
Didier

Le 13/02/2021 à 14:56, Francisco Tissera a écrit :
> Hi there.
>
> For which platphorms has brltty 6.3 been released, is there a way to know?
>
> Best regards.
>
> Francisco
>
> *From: *Didier Spaier via orca-list <mailto:orca-list gnome org>
> *Sent: *Saturday, February 13, 2021 2:07 PM
> *To: *orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org>
> *Subject: *Re: [orca-list] Another question about Orca and BRLTTY
>
> Hi Franciso,
>
> that's a known issue with brltty-6.2, which should hopefully be solved in
>
> brltty 6.3
>
> As a workaround, I downgraded to 6.1 in Slint until 6.3 be released, will
>
> upgrade to 6.3 today as it has been released a few days ago.
>
> Le 13/02/2021 à 13:11, Francisco Tissera via orca-list a écrit :
>
>  >      hi everyone.
>
>  >
>
>  > just today really, i noticed something interesting when i invoke BRLTTY
>
>  > and orca's enabled, since i use both speach and braille.
>
>  >
>
>  > The following happens when i type brltty, both as normal user, and as
>
>  > suduer.
>
>  >
>
>  >
>
>  > BRLTTY 6.2 rev BRLTTY-6.2 [http://brltty.app/]
>
>  >
>
>  > brltty: executing as invoking user: root
>
>  >
>
>  > brltty: path not group readable: /dev/uinput
>
>  >
>
>  > brltty: path not group writable: /dev/uinput
>
>  >
>
>  > brltty: path not group readable: /dev/uinput
>
>  >
>
>  > brltty: path not group writable: /dev/uinput
>
>  >
>
>  >
>
>  > In addition, when i run the same command as normal user, it gives me
>
>  > some stuff about not granted capabilities, but i guess that's because i
>
>  > ran it as normal user.
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>  >
>
>  > Is there any way you guys know to fix this, or is it just a warning i
>
>  > should ignore?
>
>  >
>
>  > Thank you for your answers.
>
>  >
>
>  > Best regards
>
>  >
>
>  > Francisco.