[BRLTTY] qemu/vmware/... virtual braille devices?
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sat Apr 7 19:34:03 EDT 2007
Hi,
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 08 Apr 2007 01:25:17 +0200, a écrit :
> Dave Mielke, le Sat 07 Apr 2007 09:43:00 -0400, a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2007/04/07 at 10:56 +0200]
> >
> > >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, ...)
> >
> > Rather than a virtual braille driver, why not just use the BrlAPI braille
> > driver?
>
> That's the solution I proposed on the list where the issue was raised.
> However, this requires some not-so-trivial configuration
Which the user couldn't achieve yet.
> and it doesn't permit to test another screen reader than brltty in the
> emulated system.
Also, this requires working virtual network, which is not necessarily
easy.
Samuel
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