From: Roger Butenuth <butenuth@online.de>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Cc: Mario Lang <mlang@teleweb.at>, Jois <evvivajaws@libero.it>
Subject: Re: BRLTTY & Alva Satellite series
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:03:39 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305072200490.8303@wright.online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305071551250.12910-100000@xanadu.home>
Hello!
Some time ago I asked Alva for information on the parallel port protocol,
with no success. For me it seems they don't want their braille terminals
used with Linux. At least the serial port prototol is documented...
Roger Butenuth
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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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