Test repo updated

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Jun 27 03:02:05 EDT 2017


Gregory Nowak, on lun. 26 juin 2017 20:55:29 -0700, wrote:
> Are the chips in those converters able to recognize if they're
> connected to a bidirectional device, and block reads if they aren't?
> The converter I'm using is ieee1284 capable. If the chip in that
> converter can't recognize if the connected device is bidirectional or
> not, then I'm thinking it's better to allow reads in case the device
> is bidirectional

Ah, yes. I don't know.

> > > Since I wasn't sure if dev=/dev/usb/lp0 would be processed, I created
> > > a softlink linking /dev/usb/lp0 to /dev/lp1,
> > 
> > The speakup module does not read /dev, it uses the tty names.
> > 
> > Could you tell us the content of /proc/tty/drivers?
> 
> /dev/tty             /dev/tty        5       0 system:/dev/tty
> /dev/console         /dev/console    5       1 system:console
> /dev/ptmx            /dev/ptmx       5       2 system
> /dev/vc/0            /dev/vc/0       4       0 system:vtmaster
> serial               /dev/ttyS       4 64-95 serial
> pty_slave            /dev/pts      136 0-1048575 pty:slave
> pty_master           /dev/ptm      128 0-1048575 pty:master
> unknown              /dev/tty        4 1-63 console

So no lp indeed. No wonder it's not recognized.

Samuel


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