Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Well, brltty is for braille support, not speech output The part of the problem where you have to fetch text from dos to redirect it to another device is the same for both. Work to improve cooperation of either with dos helps both. By the way, there also was a project to port brltty to dos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Travis Siegel
Well, brltty is for braille support, not speech output, and I agree that it is generally distributed separately. However, speakup is physically part of the linux kernel (for those distros that include it) though there are other screen readers (such as yasr for text mode, and orca for gui outp

Re: [Freedos-user] usb mouse.

2008-08-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.KeyboardAndMouse D.A. schrieb: > Hello. > > Does ctmouse support mouse USB 1.0 ? > > -- > D.A. > id 0xC4D22CDD > fp 8F52 8619 6918 DAE3 5E61 3146 C89F BDB8 C4D2 2CDD > > --

Re: [Freedos-user] usb mouse.

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Does ctmouse support mouse USB 1.0 ? You have to tell your BIOS to enable USB keyboard / mouse legacy support. Then DOS can use them as if they would be PS/2 keyboard and mouse :-). If your BIOS does not support USB keyboard or mouse, you cannot use ctmouse. Eric --

[Freedos-user] usb mouse.

2008-08-30 Thread D.A.
Hello. Does ctmouse support mouse USB 1.0 ? -- D.A. id 0xC4D22CDD fp 8F52 8619 6918 DAE3 5E61 3146 C89F BDB8 C4D2 2CDD - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux b

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Last time I tried running my screen reader on freedos (admittedly, it > was several years ago, and freedos wasn't anywhere near ver 1.0) it > just plain didn't work. Then try again. If you use NANSI, make sure to use the /R option to force output via BIOS. FreeDOS uses BIOS int 10 function