development questions

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Speakup already supports the Doubletalk LT.

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Chris Peterson wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: development questions
>
>
> > Well, the best way to start is to install speakup into a kernel and
> > start using it.  You can find out about the keymap by reading the
>
> I'm waiting for my doubletalk pc to come so I can do that.  Btw, is there
> any plan to write a driver for the doubletalk lt?
>
> > keymap tutorial in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/speakup.  Basically
>
> >The following is from that tutorial:
> >keycode  72 = 0x0d0a
> > altgr keycode 72 = 0x0d20
> >#keycode  72 = KP_8
> > alt     keycode  72 = Ascii_8
> >
> >Notice that the only thing which has changed on the first line is the
> >function called when the key is struck.  It is a hexadecimal number
> >identifying the function called in a look up table.  It is not a
> >symbolic representation yet because that means we need to change the
> >loadkeys program to understand our symbolic names.  We will do this in
> >the future but for now it is more expedient to just use the table
> >indices.  You will find a table at the bottom of this document
> >listing the review functions and their corresponding hex lookups.
>
>
> Okay, so where is that lookup table stored?  I can read the one at the botom
> of the tutorial, but I want to know where this is actually stored so I can
> understand how to add my own functions to it.  Perhaps I didn't phrase my
> initial question well or I had to many questions in one message.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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