Re: [BRLTTY] braille star 40

2017-03-30 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH
Hello, this might just be me stating the really obvious and making a fool of myself, but since the FTDI chip emulates a serial connection through USB and the FTDI driver takes care of that, wouldn't it make sense for the device to appear as serial rather than USB? At least on Windows when I connect

Re: [BRLTTY] braille star 40

2017-03-30 Thread Mario Lang
Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH writes: > this might just be me stating the really obvious and making a fool of > myself, but since the FTDI chip emulates a serial connection through USB and > the FTDI driver takes care of that, wouldn't it make sense for the device to > appear as

Re: [BRLTTY] braille star 40

2017-03-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I think you are right about your hypothesis. It's just that my experience with serial in the past involved either a serial cable or a converter so I wasn't expecting this. But it does make sense. On Mar 30, 2017, at 2:19 AM, Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH wrote: Hello, th

Re: [BRLTTY] braille star 40

2017-03-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
"refuses" is a pretty strong depiction. I wanted to try to solve the problem first if I could without doing logs but I have done logs in the past, as Dave can testify, and I am not at all adverse to doing them. I am rather busy right now and am preparing for a three-week visit from a friend. On

[BRLTTY] Burlap and OS X

2017-03-30 Thread rmgls
Hi Dave, just a question: is brlapi supposed to build on OS X? if yes, sysmacros.h does not exist on this platform and, brltty does not build. Is there something like --disable-brlapi in configure, or even #IF DEFINED DARWIN!!! somewhere? may be i miss something? Thanks and Regards; Raoul rm.