Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:47:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: clicky driver Message-ID: <20091225204746.GA60638@thought.org>
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People, Some of you know that I've been working on a speech-computer: a small, easily portable computer than virtually anyone can afford. (To be fair, there is a touchscreen device that uses Windows. If you have at least $9,000 to spend.] I have spend the past weeks checking out the OLPC "XO" computer. It comes with espeak which lots of speech-impaired find a lousy way of giving them a voice. The size of the keyboard is an issue; another issue is that the computer had RH on ROM. One developer told me that the keys are hard to press and have no feedback. Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio "click", not even that. Sun does have a command line % click -[yn] which is a start. If someone in the kernel-side would work with me and add the Audio click, I will look at some of the netbooks to see how usable they are. There are millions of people world-wide with impaired speech who can type. The variation is too wide for anyone or any device to cover everything, but that, so far, is the rational to do nothing. As a first cut, is there somebody on the kernel side I should check with to see about adding a "click driver"? thanks in advance. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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