Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hi,

Dave Mielke, le Mon 27 Mar 2006 17:50:48 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/03/28 at 00:13 +0200]
> 
> >I'm not saying that. I'm seeing that debian-installer uses bterm by
> >default now. Well, fine, but brltty needs to get that utf-8 stream
> >somehow, for being able to display it on braille devices.
> 
> Where does bterm maintain the unicode knowledge of what's on the screen? Is it
> in its own memory,

In its own memory, which I proposed (in the very first mail of the
discussion) to export somehow to brltty, via some /dev/bterm mmap()ed
file for instance (very easy to implement in bterm's code: a mere open()
then mmap() instead of the current malloc()).

> or can we read it from a /dev/fb device?

We would only get the graphical representation from /dev/fb.

Regards,
Samuel