[BRLTTY] qemu/vmware/... virtual braille devices?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sat Apr 7 05:37:07 EDT 2007


Jason White, le Sat 07 Apr 2007 19:19:15 +1000, a écrit :
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>  
> > The problem is that you can't let both brlttys use the same device at
> > the same time. You have to turn one of them off and switch back & forth,
> > which is tedious. Or use another braille device, which is expensive.
> > With a virtual braille device everything should work smoothly, just like
> > for other devices (video board, mouse, keyboard, ...)
> 
> So if each BRLTTY instance has its own virtual device, there must be some way
> to control which one has access, via the virtual display, to the real
> hardware.

And that's precisely what brlapi is meant for, and that already works.

Samuel


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