[Bug 874181] Re: brltty daemon prevents creation of ttyUSB0 device link

[Harry Bloomberg]

I too wasted a week of my finite life chasing after this.  I know of no
other operating system in widespread usage that comes configured by
default like this.  I'm already not very happy with Ubuntu over Unity,
this does not help my opinion of the distribution.  I'm also trying to
convince other amateur operators to use Linux and this issue is a real
stumbling block.  With issues like this, is it any wonder most of them
are using some variant of Windows?

I think a worthwhile compromise would be a sub-distribution of Ubuntu
aimed specifically at the sightless accompanied with an easy-to-follow
document on how to make mainstream Ubuntu usable for the sightless.

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Title:
  brltty daemon prevents creation of ttyUSB0 device link

Status in “brltty” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Impact:
  This bug is somewhat hardware specific, affecting all users of the USB serial controller, device 10c4:ea60.

  Test case:
  With the current version of brltty in Oneiric, brltty takes over any device using the above mentioned USB serial controller, whether it is a Braille display or not. This is because one of Brltty's supported displays uses this USB serial control internally for ocmmunication. The brltty package in oneiric-proposed has the udev rule for this controller commented out, allowing other users of devices based on this controller to work properly.

  Regression potential:
  All users of the supported Seika will have to load Brltty manually, as the udev rule for their device is commented out, to allow other USB serial controller users to use their device as a proper serial device.

  Original description follows:

  After upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, I no longer found a
  '/dev/ttyUSB0' for my serial-to-USB converter. The device is part  of
  a Xilinx FPGA board and is a "10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products,
  Inc. CP210x Composite Device".

  Every time I plugged in the device, dmesg showed the device coming up
  and 'brltty' did *something* to it. At this point, no device was
  present in '/dev'.

  [ 5181.130942] cp210x 1-1.4:1.0: cp210x converter detected
  [ 5181.203658] usb 1-1.4: reset full speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
  [ 5181.296637] usb 1-1.4: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
  [ 5181.623749] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by cp210x while 'brltty' sets config #1

  After removing 'brltty', the '/dev/ttyUSB0' device appears again like
  it used to.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: brltty (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 14 14:39:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LC_TIME=C
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: brltty
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)

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