From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 18044 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1997 03:51:32 -0000 Received: from prn-ts1-12.jvnc.net (HELO kjahds.com) (kjahds@204.143.69.12) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1997 03:51:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (kjahds@localhost) by kjahds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA00384 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:48:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:48:10 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Albanowski To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: tclx drivers for emacspeak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Ken Perry wrote: > It would need a simple driver to tell linux how to talk to the card all > cards in linux need these drivers for example how does linux know what pin > to send text to the double talk on? The answer is it has no clue that is > what the driver does it simply gives you a file to send and recive > information about the card or for the card to and the driver places or > gets the info you are dealing with. If the DoubleTalk internal card exactly mimics the LPT3 interface in hardware, no driver is needed. It looks and _is_, to all intents and purposes, a printer. Just set up Linux for lpt3. -- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)