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From: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
To: "Linux General Discussion for Blind Users (mailing list)"
	<blinux-list@redhat.com>
Cc: Tim Pennick <T.Pennick@axion.bt.co.uk>
Subject: Re: x-windows access question
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:35:09 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0209190628470.999-100000@dave.private.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209191004.g8JA44i08739@mx1.redhat.com>

[quoted lines by Tim Pennick on September 19, 2002, at 11:26]

>As far as I know, there are no specific Linux drivers written to drive the
>Software version of the Papenmeier displays.  You can of course use BRLTTY,
>but that isn't a Papenmeier product,

How is this a disadvantage? Is it missing some functionality which it should
have?

>and has the disadvantage over the
>Hardware version, of not being 'up and running' during the early stages of the
>boot process.

BRLTTY can be started as the very first step of the boot sequence. It's on-line
manual describes how to do this, i.e. with a sysinit entry in inittab. That's
probably about the best that can be hoped for with a software solution, and,
since most people these days don't have an ISA video card, they wouldn't be
able to use Papenmeier's hardware solution anyway.

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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Honaker, Larry (DSIO-MS)
 ` Mario Lang
   ` shaun_oliver
     ` Matt
   ` John
     ` philwh
 ` John J. Boyer
 ` Andreas Jusek
   ` Tim Pennick
     ` Dave Mielke [this message]
     ` Andreas Jusek
 ` philwh

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