Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:07:02 -0500 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Blind-access patch for Linux 1.3.x |
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 21:59:19 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
I've thought through the various permutations, believe me: yes, your idea works much better then most, but it requires a custom (or at least recent) init and it doesn't give any help if the boot locks up before getting to init.
You'd only need it for the initial installation, because the other part of my proposal was to make it possible to recompile a kernel that always did things in "blind mode" (at least according this particular braille device.)
As far as the installation software, we could just turn off hardscroll for the installation disk. (i.e., use a kernel in "blind mode" by default. Turning off hardscroll is slower, but there aren't any other bad effects.
- Ted
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