Re: Linux for the Blind

Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 06:07:37 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Markus Gutschke wrote:

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> In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960228140047.185H-100000@kjahds.com> Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> writes:
> > Again, if anyone has anything to say on this topic, I'd love to hear it.
>
> You should contact the people of the GGI project
>
> - they had to change major parts of the console driver, in order to
> make it work with the concept of kernel loadable device
> drivers. Thus, any changes you make to the current console driver,
> are likely to be lost, when GGI makes it into the official kernel
> (which might still be a little down the road, though).

Yes, I've been following that. I don't think GGI is going to be done in time
for 1.4.x, so I'm not in a rush. In any case, I suspect think their console
rewrite already indirectly fixes the problem.

> - Their concept of loadable drivers might actually simplify your
> problem. Maybe it would be possible to include a loadable driver
> for the Braille output device.

An interesting idea, thanks.

> Send a message to seeger@physik.tu-chemnitz.de, or have a look at his
> homepage http: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse, or subscribe to the
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> Markus
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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)