New driver: vlsys_m428 driver for Moneual MonCaso 320 (W. Hauck).

2011-10-23 12:08:55 +00:00
parent b8646d2db3
commit 57c0645621
11 changed files with 542 additions and 6 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<sect1 id="vlsys_m428-howto">
+<title>The vlsys_m428 driver</title>
+
+<sect2 id="vlsys_m428-general">
+<title>General</title>
+
+<para>
+The vlsys_m428 driver handles the VFD/IR combination from VLSystem built into
+the case MonCaso 320 from the manufacturer Moneual. The driver functionality
+is rudimentary as it is derived from a reverse engineering from the Windows
+driver behaviour.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This driver writes only to the serial port, and it triggers no transmission
+activity of the combination. Thus, it cooperates with drivers reading only
+from the port. Other drivers are allowed to initialize the combination for
+IR operation.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The vlsys_m428 driver assumes the character encoding ISO 8859-1.
+Note: The mapping from the character encoding to the display encoding is not complete;
+furthermore some characters are approximated by similar ones.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="vlsys_m428-configuration">
+<title>Configuration</title>
+
+<para>
+The only configuration parameter is <property>Device</property>, the path name
+of the serial device (a mapper between USB and serial line emulation). By
+default it is <filename class="devicefile">/dev/ttyUSB0</filename>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>