Re: tclx drivers for emacspeak

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds kjahds com>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Ken Perry wrote:

> It would need a simple driver to tell linux how to talk to the card all
> cards in linux need these drivers for example how does linux know what pin
> to send text to  the double talk on?  The answer is it has no clue that is
> what the driver does it simply gives you a file to send and recive
> information about the card or for the card to and the driver places or
> gets the info you are dealing with.

If the DoubleTalk internal card exactly mimics the LPT3 interface in
hardware, no driver is needed. It looks and _is_, to all intents and
purposes, a printer. Just set up Linux for lpt3.

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds kjahds com, CIS: 70705,126)