Nicolas, Where do I find documentation on the Alva built-in menus? Most of what I know I've learned by trial and error, and I haven't been able to find where to set the baud rate, etc. thanks, John On Fri, 9 May 2003, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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 > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list