Speakup in userspace

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:33:54PM EST, Tyler Spivey wrote:
> 1. How can a userspace program get extended key sequences such as caps
> lock+i? Under Linux, I don't think that an API exists for this.

THis is possible, using the uinput module from the kernel.

> 2. What about console output? There is /dev/vcs[a]x, but polling that
> a few times a second would be inefficient if the system was under load.

BrlTTY uses this, and does so quite efficiently. As it is, if a user 
wants to run speakup and BrlTTY, there could be a problem with both 
programs wanting to share the same devices.

THere has in fact been discussion on the BrlTTY mailing list about 
extending BrlTTY to have speech/screen reader via keyboard 
functionality. Patches would be accepted for BrlTTY to do this.
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