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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