Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help to port brltty to BSD Message-ID: <200105262147.f4QLlA401869@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 May 2001 23:30:04 %2B0200." <20010526233003.C687@nebula.cybercable.fr>
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> Hello all,
>
>
> I have been discussing on IRC with a blind people who can't use BSD
> because ``brltty'', the software used to render the console tty with
> braille displays, doesn't appear to work on BSD. I have been
> experiencing troubles while trying to compile it and moreover, it uses
> ``/dev/vcsa0'' to get snapshots of the tty. This is a Linux-only device.
It's always been possible to memory-map the display area; Sean Fagan
<sef@freebsd.org> wrote an amusing little hack a while back which
bubble-sorted the screen; you might ask him for the code if you're
interested.
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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