[BRLTTY] linux screen driver and commands

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Mar 10 08:49:36 EST 2006


Mario Lang, le Fri 10 Mar 2006 14:41:02 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
> > I'd say that by default, all keyboard should be grabbed. And if she
> > wants to, the user may choose the keyboard by her preferred method among
> > those described above.
> Sounds like a plan, I would drop detection order though,
> thats so unreliable that it is completely useless IMO.

Not so unreliable: drivers for internal keyboards are usually included
in the kernel, and are hence detected first.

> So, by default, grab all devices which appear to be a full
> keyboard (EV_KEY is set for > some number of keys), and introduce
> a configuration option which allows to select a specific one.

Agreed :)

Regards,
Samuel


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