[BRLTTY] [Braillenote] Re: The BrailleNote Apex QT Debacle

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sabahattin Gucukoglu on 2011/08/16 at 17:05 +0100]

>I don't know what the current state of desktop Linux is, but USB is a bit 
>tricky because you need to automatically set up the serial port it represents 
>and then get brltty started using it in order for plug-and-pray to work.  It 
>should theoretically be possible using Hal, but I've never seen it done.  

It probably already works automatically, out of the box, with udev. Brltty, 
however, doesn't need a virtual serial port in order to access a device via 
USB. It has the ability to connect directly to the device over USB. This is 
actually how most users use it.

>Keyboards should be fine.

Yes. USB HID keyboards just work.

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