question about installing keynote isa or eisa card in linux.

[Aaron Howell]

As i said before, there are docs to do it, but I'm not sure whether Pulse Data still require you to sign a non disclosure agreement before they will give them to you.
You'd have to contact Pulse Data and ask them.
Regards
Aaron
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 09:03:18PM -0500, Jeremy R Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> I know I can't use the card with speakup.
> I'm actually thinking about trying to write a driver for the keynote myself,
> but I'm not sure where to start. I probably have to write some kind of init
> function or something, but it seems like some of the docs talk about
> assembler, so I'm not sure how to do that under c, or if I even have to.
> It talks about registers and such I believe.
> Anyway, do you know how to find the keynote, and write to it, or a piece of
> hardware for that matter.
> I've done a little with the doubletalk, but I just wrote to the serial port,
> with /dev I believe. I just opened a file for read write, but I don't know
> if that's the way to go in this case.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: question about installing keynote isa or eisa card in linux.
> 
> 
> > Hi there,
> > You can install your keynote card in your redhat box, but you can't use it
> with speakup (its not supported).
> > The card uses a polled interface (no interrupt is needed), and unless
> you've changed the jumper on it, has its interface at 0x2e8-0x2ef.
> > If you did change the jumper then its at 0x2a8-0x2af.
> > For much more information beyond that you'll need the technical specs from
> Pulse Data, I'm not sure if they're still requiring people to sign an NDA to
> get that or not.
> > Regards
> > Aaron
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:41:53PM -0500, Jeremy R Schmidt wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > > I was wondering, I want to install my keynote internal synth into my
> RedHat
> > > 7.2 box.
> > > How can I determine how it is installed?
> > > (IRQ, interupt, ETC?)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > >
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