Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection
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 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.
Agreed, but it does not make the machine completely unusable.
> There must be a way to further differentiate these devices?
Unfortunately, no.
> Or is this intended to catch older braille devices being used via an
> RS232<->USB adapter?
No, these would be configured through /dev/ttyUSB0.
> >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
Ooh, I see why. That's because orca now recommends brltty-x11, which
happens to depend on brltty just because it contains a driver. We'll
have a look at avoiding that.
Samuel
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