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