Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 May 2019 03:47:00 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> That I don't know. I don't have it here on my Stretch. It would be > >> interesting to discover what dragged brltty into yours. > > > > Good question. The install image is supposed to be the latest > > stra

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> That I don't know. I don't have it here on my Stretch. It would be >> interesting to discover what dragged brltty into yours. >> > Good question. The install image is supposed to be the latest straight > amd64 debian stretch, with a rt-preempt kernel and t

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 07:44:51 pm David Wright wrote: > On Tue 21 May 2019 at 17:21:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 02:31:26 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind. > > > > > > > > Then pe

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 May 2019 at 17:21:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 02:31:26 pm Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind. > > >> > > > Then perhaps the better question is why was it running on a new > > > stre

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 02:37:57 pm bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201905211405.01261.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > >> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind. > > > >Then perhaps the better question is why was it running on a new > > stretch install? I think it probably could be fixed to k

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 02:31:26 pm Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind. > >> > >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Then perhaps the better question is why was it running on a new > > stretch install? I think it probably coul

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 02:31:20 pm David Wright wrote: > On Tue 21 May 2019 at 13:53:59 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 05:13:45 am Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? > > > > > > http

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 May 2019 at 13:53:59 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 05:13:45 am Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? > > > > https://brltty.app/ > > > > There's some kind of conflict of interest be

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind. >> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Then perhaps the better question is why was it running on a new stretch > install? I think it probably could be fixed to keep both camps happy. That I don't know. I

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 May 2019 at 14:05:01 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 11:41:00 am Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > This to me is a bug that needs fixed. No sense in denying someone > > > using > > > > There are already oldenbugs flurrying around the question

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 11:41:00 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This to me is a bug that needs fixed. No sense in denying someone > > using > > There are already oldenbugs flurrying around the question, Gene. > > Here's one from 2012: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 05:13:45 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? > > https://brltty.app/ > > There's some kind of conflict of interest between the kernel and > brltty, the latter of which is claiming the device

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This to me is a bug that needs fixed. No sense in denying someone using There are already oldenbugs flurrying around the question, Gene. Here's one from 2012: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667616 tags 667616 + wontfix Arthur Magill

Re: got a new problem with heyu, and it is a bug in bfltty that kills all /dev/ttyUSBnumber's

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 04:29:55 am you wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-05-21 04:17 (UTC-0400): > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? > > Past bedtime. Google knew: > https://github.com/brltty/brltty > "BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) providing access to

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 04:17:28 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 03:27:14 am Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just got thru building and installing heyu. But it uses > > /dev/ttyUSB# which does not exist on stretch. So where is it moved > > to? > > > > Cheers, Gene

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? https://brltty.app/ There's some kind of conflict of interest between the kernel and brltty, the latter of which is claiming the device. If you're not visually impaired, uninstalling the brltt

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-21 10:17:28) > On Tuesday 21 May 2019 03:27:14 am Gene Heskett wrote: > I have no clue what brltty is, its new to me. Whats going on? $ LANG=C apt-cache search brltty brltty - Access software for a blind person using a braille display brltty-espeak - Access software

Re: got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 May 2019 03:27:14 am Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just got thru building and installing heyu. But it uses /dev/ttyUSB# > which does not exist on stretch. So where is it moved to? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett continued, it seems that the usb-serial adapters I have, all ft23

got a new problem with heyu

2019-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just got thru building and installing heyu. But it uses /dev/ttyUSB# which does not exist on stretch. So where is it moved to? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdersh