[BRLTTY] Papenmeier EL40C apparently detected as EL40S

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Jeanette C. on 2025/06/21 at 02:32 +0200]

>Because the EL40C's easy access bar can only move one step in each
>direction, instead of the two steps the EL40S can move, the
>key-combination easy access bar = RoutingKey2, emulates the "double
>step". 

I guess you mean + (plus), not = (equals). I'm also assuming that you can press any of the RoutingKey2 keys. This is probably done within the device itself, i.e. the driver isn't doing it, which is why I'm not rememering it.

>Behind the braille cells there are two rows of cursor routing
>keys. The one at the top is known as RoutingKey1, the one at the bottom,
>right above the braille cells, is known as RoutingKey2.

That's the reverse of what I'd expect, i.e. brltty usually defines the routing keys immediately behind the cells as RoutingKey1, which does fit with what you're describing regarding what they do.

>Attached is a brltty.log logging debug, inputs and brlkeys. 

It should be "inpkts" (input packets), not "inputs". That'd be why the log is missing some of the information that I'm looking for. So, if you don't mind, could you please recapture the log specifying "inpkts"?

Interestingly, one thing in your log is this:

   probing Papenmeier display at 57600 baud
   Papenmeier ID: 85  Version: 1.28
   BrailleX EL40s  Size: 40

So brltty is thinking that what you have is an EL40S. That model identifier - 85 - is being sent by the device itself so, for whatever reason, it's advertising itself as an EL40S. Does it maybe have some kind of internal menu where you can set this kind of thing?

you mentioned looking for an EL40C-specific driver. Brltty doesn't have that. Its Papenmeier driver looks at the device's model identifier value to decide which actual model you have. And, yes, 85 is indeed the model identifier for an EL40S. The EL40C has the model identifier 95.

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