From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596C42F1FD for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:02:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id f2FG3Mj04228 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:03:22 -0500 Received: from home.delysid.org (chello212017106124.graz.surfer.at [212.17.106.124]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f2FG3LV04224 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:03:21 -0500 Received: from mlang by home.delysid.org with local (Exim 3.20 #1 (Debian)) id 14daBm-00005R-00 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:01:22 +0100 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: braille and X References: From: Mario Lang In-Reply-To: Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: <878zm710od.fsf@home.delysid.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Andor Demarteau writes: > did anyone already try (I think it was from Beam tld) braille-support under > X, Yes. > with what type of braille-hardware I wrote a quick and dirty module for my PowerBraille 80. It worked like a quick and DIRTY hack can work. Screen content was often scrambled, But I am unsure if this comes from sbserver or from the way I implemented the driver. Still have to debug this. > and what were the successes/failures? Hmm, I recognized that there is no line mode. IMHO as long as there is no line-mode implemented, braille display support makes not much sense because you only get what you get when you use the speech synth,. No additional information, and no more than one object horizontally, regardless if one more would fit on the display. I had some difficulties with the driver interface because nearly the whole sbserver is a binary. But that could be the effect of my lazieness. -- CYa, Mario Homepage(s): http://delysid.org | http://piss.at/ When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't.