[BRLTTY] Filter keyboard keypresses on Linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le Sat 15 Dec 2007 22:37:18 +0100, a écrit :
> > Does it intercept them first, do we, does one scheme disable or
> > conflict with the otehr, etc?
> 
> If speakup intercepts on the hardware level (which I guess they do),

Nope, it's done at the last layer, just before actually inserting
characters in the tty queues.

> I guess it will see they keypress anyway.  I highly doubt speakup uses
> the input layer API, they dont like using APIs :-).

This is changing. In 2.6.24 I got a notifier patch in, and the git
version already uses this. Soon there should be no need for a patched
kernel for speakup to work.

Samuel