development questions

Chris Peterson capeterson at visi.com
Sat Jan 26 21:58:33 EST 2002


Yeah, I found it...  I might see if I can still change my order...

Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: development questions


> There is a Double Talk LT driver already.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Peterson <capeterson at visi.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: development questions
>
>
> >
> > ----- 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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