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

Jason White jasonw at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
Sat Apr 7 05:19:15 EDT 2007


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.



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