Comment 16 for bug 874181
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| Matthew Geier (matthew-sleeper) wrote | #16 |
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>> Let's deactivate BRLTTY default
>Please don't do that. It'd make way harder for blind people to use Ubuntu.
But at the moment it's causing a much larger population of people have their USB serial devices stop working for no apparent reason. And many devices are implemented by USB serial interfaces, some people are quite likely to have - GPS devices for example.
brltty should only claim the USB serial interfaces used by Braille teletypes - although having been exposed briefly to this technology (supporting a blind staff member), I can imagine many are just 'write only' serial devices and thus undetectable. The modern ones probably use the SAME usb to serial chips that other non Braille devices also use, interfaced to the older 'write only' back end.
As it stands, a much larger population are finding their GPS logger doesn't work, their 'ICE debugger' doesn't work, their home automation interface doesn't work, etc, etc.
There are a truck load of USB devices out there that are implemented via a USB-serial bridge chip.
The only compromise I can see is to use brltty during the install process so a blind user can install and throw up a question asking 'do you need Braille tty support ?' and hope most sensible sighted people will say no.