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 makes all FTDI based serial devices unusable, except braille devices. This doesn't seem great either. There must be a way to further differentiate these devices? Or is this intended to catch older braille devices being used via an RS232<->USB adapter?
How brltty ended up being installed on your system? Was it brought through some dependency?
That's a good question. I never explicitly asked for it, so I assumed it came as part of the standard installation? My system says:
# apt-cache rdepends brltty brltty Reverse Depends: speechd-el brltty-x11 brltty-speechd brltty-flite speechd-el brltty-x11 brltty-speechd brltty-flite brltty-espeak Thanks for looking into this. Arthur