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

[ironfisher]

I mailed the developer of "brltty" about this bug and he has proposed
the next solution:

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>Strictly speaking, yes, brltty is causing the problem. An easy solution,
>though, would be for Ubuntu to give brltty's udev file an earlier position in
>the udev rules file processing order so that the generic rule will take
>precedence. Then there'd only be a conflict if a brltty user also has one of
>those other devices. That could happen, of course, but it'd be far less common
>than all users being impacted by the current problem.

Anyway thank you all  for fixing this bug. Love this community.

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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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