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Re: [Debian-knoppix] Braille-Support on KNOPPIX?



On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:21PM +0100, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There is a request for Braille Support for blind people on KNOPPIX.
> Does anybody have experience with this? Which drivers/daemons are
> necessary?

have a look at

    http://dave.mielke.cc/brltty/

"BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (when in
text mode)...."

but without hardware it's hard to test.

> I would propose a boot option "braille" or "blind" for the boot console
> to boot into a setting for vision-handicapped, instead of X.

maybe a braille device can be autodetected (imho have suse already an
autodetection for braille displays).

regards
oliver

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