Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Input buffered in mlterm-fb?

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

 Hi,

From: Didier Spaier <di...@sl...>
Subject: Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Input buffered in mlterm-fb?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 19:24:06 +0200
Message-ID: <5fb...@sl...>

> Le 08/05/2017 à 18:30, Araki Ken a écrit :
> >  If you execute "KBD_INPUT_NUM=0 mlterm-fb" and can't input anything,
> > /dev/input/event0 might not be a keyboard device you use.
> >  Will you inform me of the result of following commands just in case?
> > 
> >  $ for f in /sys/class/input/input*/name; do echo $f; cat $f; done
> 
> I already checked, but here goes:
> 
> didier[~]$ for f in /sys/class/input/input*/name; do echo $f; cat $f; done
> /sys/class/input/input0/name
> AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
> /sys/class/input/input1/name
> Speakup
> /sys/class/input/input10/name
> HDA Intel PCH Headphone
> /sys/class/input/input11/name
> Video Bus
> /sys/class/input/input12/name
> Logitech USB Optical Mouse
> /sys/class/input/input13/name
> BRLTTY 5.4 Linux Screen Driver Keyboard
> /sys/class/input/input3/name
> Lid Switch
> /sys/class/input/input4/name
> Sleep Button
> /sys/class/input/input5/name
> Power Button
> /sys/class/input/input6/name
> ThinkPad Extra Buttons
> /sys/class/input/input7/name
> HDA Intel PCH Mic
> /sys/class/input/input8/name
> HDA Intel PCH Dock Mic
> /sys/class/input/input9/name
> HDA Intel PCH Dock Headphone

 How about starting mlterm-fb with KBD_INPUT_NUM=13 ?

 If it solves the problem, I'll fix mlterm-fb to prefer BRLTTY keyboard to
normal AT keyboard.

> Which leads to an off topic question. nosh is supposed to be able
> to provide two outputs if I understand well: one to draw a framebuffer
> and another to provide discrete characters that can be read by brltty.
> Can mlterm do something similar[1]? Cf:
> https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/brltty.html
> https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html

 I'm not familiar to brltty and nosh at all.

 As far as I looked over them, it seems possibe to enable mlterm to
output characters to brltty, though I haven't understand yet the natural
way of processing characters to be output to brltty.

 http://mlterm.sf.net/mlterm-3.8.1-brltty.patch is a simple patch, and
I tested brltty as follows.

$ tar xzvf mlterm-3.8.1.tar.gz
$ cd mlterm-3.8.1
$ patch -p1 < mlterm-3.8.1-brltty.patch
$ ./configure ...
$ make; sudo make install
$ export BRLTTY_SPEECH_INPUT=~/tmp_fifo
$ brltty -s es -E
$ mlterm

 I haven't try nosh yet.
 I'll investigate this topic a bit more.

 Regards,
--- 
Araki Ken
ara...@us...