On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as > 115000 bits or something. yes, modern serial device can go up to that speed.
I just looked into my inittab file and notice that the sample-line for serial terminals indeed says 9600 baud. > By the way, I don't think I really need your brltty mini ISO provided that i > won't be having any major problems with serial install. I'd appreciate it if > you kept it a few days, though, as I don't know if everything goes OK until > actually having attempted the installation. Also, the Voyager is normally > plugged to this laptop rather than to the Linux machine, so I won't be using > braille big time in Linux yet. who knows if everything goes smoothly enough, > I'll some day install Linux on all three machines. well, let me know. I'm about 99.9% linux based. I only use windows now for my ebanking-software, nothing more. > Machine summary: > > -music machine: 1.4 GHz Amd, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB ATA 100 HD, TerraTec EWS88 > MT, Midiman USB MIDI-Sport 4x4, HardSID PCI, SB Live, GeForce 2 well, linux with mpg123 or mpg321, cdparanoia and i.e. lame as encoder will do nicely. I don't know about support for the midi-stuff, sb-live is best supported bij ALSA-drivers. > -laptop: 2.0 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, built-in sound, Tieman Braille > Voyager, Canon Scanner, Ati Radeon 7000 something have a look on the net, there are loads of install examples for laptops available. Have had it installed on at least 2 Toshiba's since I astred using debina late '98 > -upcoming Linux machine: 300 MHz Celeron, 128 MB RAM, 3 GB hard drive, > AWE32, Ati Rage Pro, Voodoo 2 you'd probably wnat alsa for sound on this oen too. > I'll be installing Linux to my slowest machine first as Windows is still > currently my primary OS and I just want to try out Linux as well. If I > decide to move to Linux big time, I'll likely install it on all the other > machines including my music machine. Though the last time I looked, MIDI > Sport 2x2 was supported but 4x4 was not. Oh well. well, maybe the newest 2.6.x kernel will. -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
