From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 15433 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2000 16:22:58 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2000 16:22:58 -0000 Received: from xanadu.vipswitch.com (generic199.197.205.205.in-addr.arpa [205.205.197.199] (may be forged)) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18037 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:22:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre To: Stein Erik Skotkjerra cc: blinux-list@redhat.com, recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: BRLTTY and Alva paralel driver In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000112165015.007dda20@mail.oslonett.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: I only received success reports of people using Alva 4xx with serial connections, unfortunately. I'll see what's wrong with the segfault. Thanks. On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Stein Erik Skotkjerra wrote: > Hi! > I tried tis, but it still doesn't work. Might it be that the 440 uses another protocol for the paralel communication than the 340? > Jabt doesn't work either. > Does any of you have suggestions to other things I might try? > Has anyone ever used an ABT 4 series? > > BTW, I and others have had a problem with BRLTTY returning "Segmentation fault" when we define the ABT_TYPE in Alva/brlconf.h to eg. del440. > Thanks, > Stein Erik > > At 10:00 10.01.00 -0500, you wrote: > >It works with my ABT340. However BRLTTY reset the driver periodically to > >go around the bug Jos is mentionning, so it shouldn't be the problem. > > > >If you want to use BRLTTY with the parallel port, be sure you configured > >Alva/brlconf.h accordingly before compilation and ensure there is *no* > >parallel-port-related kernel driver running. > > > > > >On Mon, 10 Jan 100, Jos Lemmens wrote: > > > >> Hi Stein, > >> > >> I've written the parallel driver for the Alva's that is in brltty. > >> I thought it worked on the 3 and 4 series, but it seems that it only > >> works on the 3 series. > >> I myself don't use brltty but my own jabt. With jabt my Alva 340 works > >> with the parallel driver and because brltty has the same driver, I > >> think that it will work with brltty too. > >> I must say that there still is a bug in the parallel driver:( it works > >> for a while and than it hangs. You than have to kill jabt/brltty > >> and start it again, sorry. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Jos. > >> > >> > Has anyone ever succeeded in using brltty with an Alva Braille Terminal 3 or 4 using the paralel driver and kernel 2.2? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Stein Erik > >> > > >> -- > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> Jos Lemmens > >> The Netherlands > >> E-mail: jlemmens@inter.NL.net > >> Homepage: www.inter.nl.net/users/jlemmens/ > >> > >> --- > >> Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > >> Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > >> Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > >> To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > >> with subject line: unsubscribe > >> > >> > > > >--- > >Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > >Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > >Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > >To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > >with subject line: unsubscribe > > > > > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe > >