Christophe Jacquet

VTPlayer driver

The VTPlayer is a mouse specifically designed for blind people : it can « display » characters on two 16-pod tactile pads.

In February 2004, I released a driver targeted at Linux 2.6 kernel series. However, ongoing changes in Linux kernel’s internal APIs have broken the driver. It no longer compiled on recent kernels, starting with 2.6.15. I had to adapt the driver to newer kernels, but this proved difficult, because APIs have changed several times over the past few months.

Version 0.4 of my driver, released today, should work with Linux 2.6.15 to 2.6.20. However, to achieve compatibility I had to resort to conditional compilation, so I plan do drop support for older kernels at a later time.

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