Re: [BRLTTY] BC640: five blank cells and a block

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Masterson
The feature pack's keys will work in windows and they will work in note mode which you can get into in a variety of ways. We are working on the feature pack keys. I will be sending a log with two keys shortly they will be keys 1 and 4 when looking at braille cell. Tom On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, L

Re: [BRLTTY] BC640: five blank cells and a block

2011-09-28 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Dave got it, as usual. It was the split point. The base unit's keys all work; the feature pack's keys don't. I have a lot of learning to do before I can participate in that part of things... On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:49:31PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/09/2

Re: [BRLTTY] BC640: five blank cells and a block

2011-09-28 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/09/28 at 14:17 -0400] >there are five blank cells and a raised block on the left end of the display. >I'd think it was status cells except that brltty says there are no status >cells and when I modify it to say the status cells are on the left it puts the

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-07 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Yes, for now, thats all that is necessary. The Linux hiddev >>interface has a bunch of ioctls as well (all defined in linux/hiddev.h). >>They can be used to get "reports" and do other things, but >>reading incoming events is as simple as reading from the

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/02/06 at 23:57 +0100] >Yes, for now, thats all that is necessary. The Linux hiddev >interface has a bunch of ioctls as well (all defined in linux/hiddev.h). >They can be used to get "reports" and do other things, but >reading incoming events is as simple as rea

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Wed 06 Feb 2008 23:57:38 +0100, a écrit : > > What's in the event->hid field? > > -16711674. 0xff010006 probably looks better, whatever it means :) Samuel ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Below is a C file that dumps the keypresses to stdout. > > So all you do is open a hiddev and read from it? Yes, for now, thats all that is necessary. The Linux hiddev interface has a bunch of ioctls as well (all defined in linux/hiddev.h). They can be u

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/02/06 at 19:14 +0100] >Below is a C file that dumps the keypresses to stdout. So all you do is open a hiddev and read from it? What's in the event->hid field? Do you get any special event(s) when the device is turned off? Is the device just USB, or does it h

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Mario Lang wrote: > Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > you will probably not get any specs, I've been bugging optelec here in .nl > > for them for some time. > > Well, Dave already has the specs, so thats not the problem... well well okay > -- > CYa,

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Peter op 't Hof
scussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info > you will probably not get any specs, I've been bugging optelec here in .nl > for them for some time. > They even try to sell me this display i

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Mario Lang
Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you will probably not get any specs, I've been bugging optelec here in .nl > for them for some time. Well, Dave already has the specs, so thats not the problem... -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key vi

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640: Some debug info

2008-02-06 Thread Andor Demarteau
you will probably not get any specs, I've been bugging optelec here in .nl for them for some time. They even try to sell me this display instead of me going to the baum varioconnect models. O blundly told them, if you don't support linux no deal. seams even that didn't help much. Lucky me they w

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640

2008-02-01 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I have a Optilec BC640 sitting on my desk for >>potential driver development. I find the HID interface >>pretty interesting to play with, so I requested specs from Optilec. >>They told me Dave is already working on a driver for BRLTTY. >>Is this true? An

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640

2008-02-01 Thread Peter op 't Hof
Yes, it is true! I am also a user of the Bc640 and Optelec has told me the same. Greetings, Peter op 't Hof. - Original Message - From: "Mario Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:54 PM Subject: [BRLTTY] bc640 > Hi. > > I have a Optilec BC640 sitting on my

Re: [BRLTTY] bc640

2008-02-01 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/02/01 at 13:54 +0100] >I have a Optilec BC640 sitting on my desk for >potential driver development. I find the HID interface >pretty interesting to play with, so I requested specs from Optilec. >They told me Dave is already working on a driver for BRLTTY. >Is t