[BRLTTY] The Baum driver should *NOT* claim a TSI display!

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Mon Aug 27 07:16:16 EDT 2007


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>> the Baum driver would continue to check for emulation modes
>>> if USB is bieng used but would only check for the native Baum protocol if
>>> serial or Bluetooth is being used.
>>
>>The Bluetooth part in the above sentence looks like an error.
>
> So you're saying that the driver should always test for the emulation modes if
> Bluetooth is being used, i.e. that it should only be careful when serial is
> eing used?

Yes, because PowerBraille displays only come as serial versions.
So the conflict only happens on serial interfaces.

>>Besides, I am not a Baum Vario user, but if I were and would use my
>>serial interface, I'd not like to loose the ability to use
>>compatibility modes.  What about coupling the above approach with
>>a boolean braille driver parameter that would still allow a user
>>to enable probing of compatibility modes even if a serial interface is used?
>
> Sure. A parameter for this is fine. Do you know if the official Baum word for
> those modes is "compatibility", "emulation", or something else?

Its "emulation".

-- 
CYa,
  Mario


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