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

[Samuel thibault]

Hazuki Amamiya, le Wed 09 Nov 2011 01:20:22 -0000, a écrit :
> I wasted over a week's time to find out why my LCD display not working
> properly before I get to here. I's say the brltty is too aggressive and
> since brltty has no intention to fix this problem (this issue repeat and
> repeat and repeat again for past few years!)

brltty is no culprit at all. There is just no way for us to know whether
braille manufacturer sanely label their USB device with a unique USB ID.
It's only when people report conflict that we can know about it, and
disable it, which is what Luke has just done. "brltty has no intention
to fix this problem" is thus just FUD.

> so I agree that brltty should be disable by default.

Simply, no.  It may have taken you a week to solve the issue, but for
blind people it's eternity that would take them to manage to use their
computer without brltty.

> I understand that the people with visual
> impairment might find it difficult to use Ubuntu by disabling brltty by
> default, but which group has more population?

Please don't just count oranges & apples.

> For the people with visual impairment they can call the
> assistance right away,

Simply, no. There's not always somebody that is able to make sense of
what is displayed on the screen.

> but how about us!? I spent a week! Yes, a week!

And blind people would spend way more time.

> And how about the GPS device company? I can imagine they are frustrated
> by this problem and probably might want to tell the customer that Ubuntu
> is not a good OS for use with GPS.

They should simply have *tested* ubuntu before its release, so that the
bug would have been spotted earlier, and fixed *before* the release.

Samuel

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