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From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Diagnosing ABT320 Braille Terminal
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:25:31 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305090822480.28940-100000@jumbo.chpi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030509115524.GA1146@wayne.edu>

Lee,

the Alva works with brltty. But it's not nearly as good as the Braille 
Lite 40 that I normally use. At least I now have a backup braille display. 
I looked at the parameters after brltty had run and they do seem to be 
9600,n81. 

Thanks,
John
 On Fri, 9 May 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> John,
> 
> It's not necessary to set anything on Linux. On the ABT, at least if the
> firmware is 970101, use the status menu to make sure the serial port
> you're using is set to pc. (If you have to change it, the setup menu
> choice is "Alva".)  This can be done on the fly; use the
> Prog+Home+Status keys and follow the prompts. BRLTTY will recover
> properly when you exit the menu.
> 
> Make sure the serial cable is a null-modes cable. BRLTTY will take care
> of the rest.
> 
> I think Travis's settings are right; I think I saw it in the source for
> the Alva driver; but as I say, brltty does it all.
> 
> I have no idea about Gnopernicus. Someone awhile ago listed the Braille
> devices supported and (at that time) Alva wasn't one of them.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John J. Boyer
 ` Travis Roth
 ` Lee Maschmeyer
   ` John J. Boyer [this message]
     ` Nicolas Pitre
     ` Lee Maschmeyer
       ` John J. Boyer
       ` Nicolas Pitre
         ` John J. Boyer
           ` Nicolas Pitre
             ` to John J. Boyer <director@chpi.org> Nicolas Pitre
 ` Diagnosing ABT320 Braille Terminal Tom Masterson

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