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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
	<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TODO file
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190316002015.kybg5vlcsdanahry@function> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190315235424.GB6641@gregn.net>

Gregory Nowak, le ven. 15 mars 2019 16:54:24 -0700, a ecrit:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit:
> > > 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct
> > > communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc?
> > 
> > I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding
> > hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA cards),
> > so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in mainline.
> 
> I'd just like to chime in here, and say that at least myself, and one
> more person on this list are still using a DoubleTalk PC card (dtlk
> driver). While I understand the two of us are in the minority, it
> would be appreciated if these cards could be made to work once again
> with newer kernels.

The support is not to be removed. It's just that the way we are
accessing the cards is really nasty, I don't think we can get this into
mainline.

I'm however wondering: is that an ISA card you still manage to run? Or
are there PCI versions? (but then I wonder how they get to expose ISA
ports).

Samuel

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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Okash Khawaja
 ` Samuel Thibault
   ` Okash Khawaja
     ` Samuel Thibault
       ` Okash Khawaja
         ` Samuel Thibault
           ` Okash Khawaja
             ` Samuel Thibault
               ` Okash Khawaja
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                   ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Tom Fowle
                 ` Janina Sajka
                   ` doubletalks Tom Fowle
                     ` doubletalks Tom Fowle
                     ` doubletalks Janina Sajka
                       ` doubletalks Tom Fowle
               ` TODO file John Covici
                 ` John Covici
 Gregory Nowak
 ` Tom Fowle
 ` John Covici

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