Are you talking about v-term for the Braille lite. I have used it with the Braille lite 18, which was upgraded to the 2000 with the double speed option, and the July 2001 software revision. V-term appears to work well. Were you able to get a copy to test drive? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Pennick" <T.Pennick@axion.bt.co.uk> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Cc: "Tim Pennick" <T.Pennick@axion.bt.co.uk> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:21 AM Subject: Taking Control (Braille Lite and Console Access) > > Hi All, > > I thought I'd just post a couple of thoughts which have occurred to me > recently about increasing access to installation, and to the early parts of > the boot process on Linux using (in my case) a braille lite. > > I recently had a Braille lite M20 purchased on my behalf, and have been > attempting to get it working with brltty. (I have a more or less working > 'hack' but nothing remotely resembling a respectable patch yet). > > At the same time, I've been reading the documentation about the Braille lite > (poor in my view), and following the discussions about using the serial port > of a linux box, for console access. One of the much discussed features of the > BL in the manuals and advertising, is its ability to interface with bulletin > boards, and it turns out that there is a program available from Freedom > Scientific, which allows it to be used as a VT100. I was pretty appalled to > discover that this program won't work on the M20 model of the braille lite, > but it at any rate shows its possible. > > I wondered whether people wanting to use braille lite type notetakers with > Linux would be better employed trying to get the BL to work as a decent > terminal for use as a console, rather than on trying to get brltty to work > with it. Afterall, console access via ttys0 is presumably available > considerably earlier than you can start the brltty daemon????? > > Maybe, the best solution would be a combination of the two, since brltty > certainly gives you a far more flexible interface than would be achievable > with a vt100, not least among its advantages, being its use of braille > tables to break the reliance on american computer code. > > Anyway, I'd be interested to kow what people think, and if anyone has got the > BL working as a terminal? (I don't know how you're supposed to go about > writing external programs for the BL, which is what a terminal emulator would > have to be.) > > Regards, > > Tim Pennick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >