blazie note takers

blazie note takers

[shaikh]

Hi all,
	I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such 
as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for 
example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the 
note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen 
using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard 
would it be to produce such a program?
any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh

Re: blazie note takers

[Justin Mann]

Yes, that is possible.  IT works prety well, Imight add.  
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Subject: blazie note takers


> Hi all,
> I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such 
> as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for 
> example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the 
> note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen 
> using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard 
> would it be to produce such a program?
> any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh
> 
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Re: blazie note takers

[Nicolas Pitre]

Look at BRLTTY: http://www.cam.org/~nico/brltty.  It supports the Braille
Lite 18 and 40 with bare speech support as well.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 shaikh@rnibncw.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such 
> as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for 
> example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the 
> note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen 
> using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard 
> would it be to produce such a program?
> any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh
> 
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Re: blazie note takers

[Janina Sajka]

I can tell you that I've done this with my DEC Alpha, but that's because
it's onboard bios supports a permanent redirection of I/O. I don't believe
Intel boards do. So, while you can access Linux over the serial port of an
Intel machine, there's a little more to do to make it happen, and you
don't have access from the initial boot on up into your applications.

I'm sure others will correct this, if I mis-represented somehow.


				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 shaikh@rnibncw.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such 
> as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for 
> example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the 
> note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen 
> using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard 
> would it be to produce such a program?
> any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh
> 
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Re: blazie note takers

[Chevelle Strobel]

With newer Linux kernels, you can have the console directed to both the
screen and the serial port.  You can also have the Lilo boot prompt
spoken.  I have a 486 running DOS and Kermit connected to my Linux
box.  Everything from the Lilo boot prompt on is sent to the terminal.
The same should work with Blaizie devices.  You need to recompile the Kernel and turn on the support.



Janina Sajka writes:
 > I can tell you that I've done this with my DEC Alpha, but that's because
 > it's onboard bios supports a permanent redirection of I/O. I don't believe
 > Intel boards do. So, while you can access Linux over the serial port of an
 > Intel machine, there's a little more to do to make it happen, and you
 > don't have access from the initial boot on up into your applications.
 > 
 > I'm sure others will correct this, if I mis-represented somehow.
 > 
 > 
 > 				Janina Sajka, Director
 > 				Information Systems Research & Development
 > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
 > 
 > janina@afb.net
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 shaikh@rnibncw.demon.co.uk wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi all,
 > > 	I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such 
 > > as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for 
 > > example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the 
 > > note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen 
 > > using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard 
 > > would it be to produce such a program?
 > > any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh
 > > 
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Re: blazie note takers

[Martin McCormick]

	I have done a little study about this INtel BIOS problem and
I don't have any good news to report at all.  One would think that a
redirection hook would facilitate automated testing and remote setups
and rescues, but if such code exists, it is a better-kept secret than
the maximum speed of our atomic subs.

Martin McCormick

Janina Sajka writes:
>I can tell you that I've done this with my DEC Alpha, but that's because
>it's onboard bios supports a permanent redirection of I/O. I don't believe
>Intel boards do. So, while you can access Linux over the serial port of an
>Intel machine, there's a little more to do to make it happen, and you
>don't have access from the initial boot on up into your applications.

Re: blazie note takers

[mark novak]

hi saqib shaikh

While it may not be exactly what you want, there used to be a program
called "a2x" or something like that, which allowed a second computer to
serially access a workstation running X Windows.  You may be able to
find this at the MIT web site archive, or some such place.  I'm guessing
that the braille lite 40 would be able to communicate with X Windows
using this application, altho access to X Windows might be more than
you are looking for, in terms of access to Linux.

We've developed "serial" access to several operating systems  (e.g.,
DOS, Windows, Macintosh) over the years, and the method is
called SerialKeys, but we've not yet done such for Linux.  Sorry, but
perhaps the above information will be helpful, or bring other
thoughts?

Mark

At 3:34 AM 1/18/00, shaikh@rnibncw.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Hi all,
>        I am wondering, is it possible to use a blazie note taker such
>as the braille lite 40 to remotely access a linux machine. for
>example, link to the computer's serial port, and then braille on the
>note taker, and hear the prompt back, and navigate the screen
>using the note taker? if nothing is currently possible, how hard
>would it be to produce such a program?
>any help would be appreciated, saqib shaikh
>
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