getting info about the display, was: Re: Linux on the VR4121

[Gregory Nowak]

How could we go about figuring out stuff about the display?
In a private correspondence with Frank, I mentioned that we could just look at braille tty to figure out how they run the display.
As Frank wisely pointed out, this wouldn't be so straight forward, due to the fact that braille tty would be handling the display differently from the way the bn runs it internally.

But, braille tty is a gpl project, and they did something or other with PDI to get the info they needed to support the braille note.

So, Is there something that we could perhaps learn from their code, or could we find out how they got PDI to give them the specs they wanted without nondisclosure agreements?

Just a thought.

Greg


On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:10:59PM -0700, J. R. Westmoreland wrote:
> A good place to start is:
> http://www.linux-vr.org
> There are a few references to the VR4121 including the fact that they have the
> sound driver working.
> 
> Now, if we can get some info on the display for the BN etc I think we may be
> off and running.
> 
> J. R. Westmoreland
> 
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