[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Windows

[Samuel Thibault]

Øyvind Lode, le Sun 26 Sep 2010 11:46:00 +0200, a écrit :
> >It depends on how the Papenmeir driver works. Since it's proprietary we
> >can't say anything but what users report, so please try and tell us.
> 
> I installed brltty 4.2.3 and selected PM for Papenmeier.
> In the port list I can choose between USB and Com 1 through Com 16.
> I assume this means that the Papenmeier driver don't provide any virtual 
> ports?

The list provided by BRLTTY doesn't mean anything, it's always USB and
COM1 through COM16.  You have to check e.g. in the control panel to see
whether there's a virtual COM port provided by Papenmeier.

> >If the driver provides a virtual COM port that BRLTTY could use, then
> >it should be just fine, don't tell BRLTTY to install any USB driver or
> >filter and just use the COM port.
> >
> >If it doesn't, then you may try to install the libusb-win32 filter
> >and see whether stopping JFW before starting BRLTTY works. I has been
> >reported that previous versions of the libusb-win32 filter makes windows
> >7 64bit hang, but recent versions should fix this. Again, please try and
> >report: as none of us has windows7, we can't test ourselves.
> 
> I selected USB from the port list and installed libusb-filter.

Which version of libusb-filter did you install?

Samuel