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 <ghesk...@shentel.net> 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 brltty package > > > might be a fix. > > > > > > All gleaned from the thread below (which looks analogous to your > > > problem): > > > > > > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/520714-Bug-handling-USB > > >-RS2 32-Serial-cable > > > > yup, same nail, same hammer, same log output. Since this reduces the > > ability of a site impaired user to use these adapter devices, it > > could be construed as discriminatory in a court of law. The way I > > see it, this can be dumped in brltty's from yard with instructions > > to fix it, asap. > > If you want to take this breathless view of bug-fixing, perhaps you > should install sid; stretch was release virtually two years ago. > > And since when were people hailed into court for misconfiguring > their software, particularly when it reminds you all the time of: > In this day and time David, you never can tell when some libtard might take the A.D.A. seriously enough to hire a lawyer who never heard of the GPL. If he is worth his hourly, he will read up on it, then go shoping for a co-operative judge. One thing I've learned in my 84 years is to rarely say never. Somewhere there's an idiot plotting how to make some money from a lawsuit. He has the mistaken idea its better than working for his 3 hots and a cot under a roof. I'm 200% with you, but I'd hate to see what little income debian purports to have, wasted on legal beagles.
> "The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free > software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described > in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. > > "Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > permitted by applicable law." > > Cheers, > David. 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 Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>