[BRLTTY] Porting BRLTTY to *BSD?

[Samuel Thibault]

Odd Martin Baanrud, le Mon 28 Nov 2011 12:04:06 +0100, a écrit :
> On 11/28/2011 02:28 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > There shouldn't be much work to build brltty on *BSD.
> 
> No, it compiles stright away on at least FreeBSD.
> It even starts, but only says "no screen".
> So the program itself works fine.
> 
> > What is missing in the BSD kernels, however, is access to the content of
> > the text console.
> 
> Yes, that's what I mean is the tricky thing.
> So I wonder if the Linux compapillity in at least FreeBSD will provide
> this content.

AFAIK, it doesn't.

> If not, the only option left is to build the patched version of screen
> which the README.OpenBSD file in the BRLTTY sources documents.

Yes.

Samuel