linux and the vario40 braile display

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Hi Nath, this was a very valuable information for me, thank you very much.
You encourage me to try this configuration. Which brltty version are you
using? is there a newer version than 2.98 which I tried?
Thanks again, Rafi.

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From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On
Behalf Of Nath
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:47 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: linux and the vario40 braile display


Hello !
a response to your second question :
I run BRLTTY  with vario 40 and it works fine. I use the TSI driver and
switch the vario to the emulation 4 protocol. I'm running kernel 2.4.18.
Hope that's help !


Nath

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On 04/06/02 at 17:25 Rafi Cohen wrote:

>Hello, I'm a blind software engineer using vario40 (or known as Rabit in
>the
>usa) as my braile display. I developped software for yeares on Linux and
>other Unix flavors by using teraterm and Jaws screen reader.
>I was quite satisfied with this. However, the new company I'm intending to
>work for, develops drivers which are infoked during the boot process and
>thus need to be debugged during this process.
>This means that I need to use vario40 directly on Linux and not through a
>terminal emulator.
>First, any and every information concerning accessing Linux with vario40
>will be most appreciated.
>I have to state 2 comments in advance:
>1. I know that there is at least one linux distribution who has braile
>display support built-in, I think it is called sUse/Linux or something
>similar. This is unacceptable by my company, since they insist on working
>on
>redhat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.7.
>2. I'm aware of brltty. Some months ago, I tried brltty 2.98 with Redhat
>7.1
>with kernel 2.4.2 but no go.
>Mario Lang, who wrote the driver for vario40 todl me that as far as he
>knows, this driver stopped working beginning with kernel 2.4.x. Does
>anybody
>have any information about this?
>May brltty work with vario40 in powerbraile emulation with the powerbrail
>drivers? Theoretically I believe that yes. I just suspect that the vario40
>buttons will not work, since the driver is built to activate the
>powerbraile
>buttons, thus making this configuration inefficient. Am I wrong here?
>As I said, any and every information on these issues will be most
>appreciated.
>Thanks in advance, Rafi Cohen.
>
>
>
>
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