From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 26 14:38:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A8E37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4QLlA401869; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105262147.f4QLlA401869@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Maxime Henrion Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help to port brltty to BSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 May 2001 23:30:04 +0200." <20010526233003.C687@nebula.cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 wrote an amusing little hack a while back which bubble-sorted the screen; you might ask him for the code if you're interested. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message