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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Mario Lang <mlang@teleweb.at>
Cc: blinux-list@redhat.com, Jois <evvivajaws@libero.it>
Subject: Re: BRLTTY & Alva Satellite series
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:56:25 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305071551250.12910-100000@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874r46v904.fsf@lexx.delysid.org>

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Mario Lang wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jois wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> does the BRLTTY program work with the Alva 544 Satellite, connected via USB?
> >> I have this Braille display at work and would like to know if I can install 
> >> Linux here.
> >
> > It works with a serial conection for sure.  If the USB protocol used is one 
> > that emulates a serial device then it should work too.
> 
> It is not.  I tested this with a 570.
> They use some custom chip, 've been told by a AT industry friend of mine
> that they even use a separate protocol for USB.

Well...  At Tieman they were kind enough to loan a Voyager braille terminal
and to provide the USB protocol information for a Linux driver to be
written. Maybe Alva can be convinced to do the same if someone has a good
contact there?


Nicolas




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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Jois
 ` Dave Mielke
 ` Nicolas Pitre
   ` Mario Lang
     ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
       ` Roger Butenuth

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