On Fri, 9 May 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > IMHO, one thing that adversely affects the Alva is that the left and > right keys are not typematic. I doubt this matters on an 80-character > display, but on a 40 it's a pain and I bet it's worse on a 20. Thanks to > Nicolas I found the place in the source where I could change it, but it > still seems an unfortunate default. And I explained why... > However, the Linux Alva driver seems more sluggish than (my memory of) > the DOS program, so I don't think it's the serial port settings since > DOS presumably uses the same ones. On DOS the default mode of operation is through the parallel port which is a much faster link. Even BRLTTY is much snappier with a parallel port connection. But unfortunately the parallel port protocol information isn't available and only an old binary-only library exists which just can't be linked with BRLTTY using recent versions of gcc. But to reduce the sluggishness a lot you can change the default serial baudrate from 9600 to, say, 38400. On BRLTTY's side you need to edit Drivers/Alva/brlconf.h accordingly and recompile. On the Alva side you need to change the baudrate using the built-in menus accessible by pressing PROG+HOME+CURSOR simultaneously. Nicolas _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list