Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection
Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
> Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
>
>> I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have
>> similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d
>> printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And brltty
>> installed automatically on some upgrade due to the some dependencies of other
>> packages, like text2spearch packages probably.
>>
>> After detecting problem it was matter of uninstalling brltty, but still why it
>> need to make live harder to some people?
>
> Because some device manufacturers don't obtain unique vendor/product ids for
> their products and thus BRLTTY can't distinguish between genuine braille
> devices and certain other hardware.
True.
> The solution is simple: if you don't have a braille display then make sure
> that BRLTTY is not installed.
No, I strongly disagree and find your reply counterproductive.
We are already discussing a real solution with Dave upstream.
BRLTTY should be installable by default without giving anyone trouble,
thats one of your really big goals for long term.
--
CYa,
⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/>
.''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/key@db.debian.org
: :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44
`. `'
`- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
Reply to: