Have tested the brltty package in bionic-proposed as instructed in
comment #12: v5.5-4ubuntu2.0.1
It works as expected.
After commenting out the "api-parameters Auth=keyfile" line in
brltty.conf and restarting the machine (just to be sure), my braille
display works completely in both text
Thanks to a member of the BrlTTY mailing list, my problem is solved. It
seems that the default authorization of BrltTTY under Ubuntu was no
longer working. Providing it with a dummy key-file was enough to get it
back to work - instantly.
The display came back to life immediately after these
Have just replayed the upgrade in a VirtualBox VM using a clean install
of Ubuntu 18.04.
Before the upgrade (of policy-kit), the braille display works (both
output and input).
After the upgrade and reboot, the same errors appear in /var/log/syslog:
Jul 18 11:49:43 test-VirtualBox brltty[409]:
Public bug reported:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:18.04
$ apt-cache policy brltty
brltty:
Installed: 5.5-4ubuntu2
Candidate: 5.5-4ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 5.5-4ubuntu2 500
500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
Public bug reported:
Hello,
Ubuntu 17.10 64 bit
GNOME 3.26.2
nVIDIA GeForce GT620 driver 384.111
X-server 11.0, v1.19.5
Orca + braille enabled
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 17.10
Release:17.10
$ apt-cache policy gdm3
gdm3:
Installed: 3.26.1-3ubuntu3
Candidate:
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