[BRLTTY] Is there still need for the manual to mention drivers in the kernel?
Lee Maschmeyer
lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Wed Mar 26 16:02:43 EDT 2008
While looking at the manual (build 3643) I ran across mention of giving
driver parameters if the driver was in the kernel or a module (putting them
in the LILO config file for example). Is this still pertinent? I've been
using brltty for 5 years and I think all this predates any of my experience.
Does it serve any purpose other than scare the bejunior out of newbies?
Also and not very related, I saw on the internet that the command sgml2txt
is "an old and obsoleted form of the linuxdoc -b command." I suppose this is
known and just hasn't been worth the bother to change, but it's interesting
that the text version of the manual can't really be displayed successfully
by less, at least on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (It works but displays hex
characters in Stefane Doyon's name among many other places.) The text
version is however the best place to look if you have to search for
something.
Just a thought,
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Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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