Fw: JFW 4, XP, Braille displays, and Ports
- From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jfw users email list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:55:39 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: JFW 4, XP, Braille displays, and Ports
did you try configuring the ports manually?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bohrman" <jeffjaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: JFW 4, XP, Braille displays, and Ports
Smiling, David. I've beaten you to this. I've uninstalled JFW and
reinstalled the program after the printer installation. And yes, we've even
gone back to a few days before I changed with t he printer installation but
everything was to no avail.
Thanks!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: JFW 4, XP, Braille displays, and Ports
> this has to do with the settings for the ports matching the settings for
the
> braille displays. I'm thinking that the printer installer made some
changes
> to those settings. If you look at them, you may be able to set them to
> their defaults. you can also do a system restore to see if that clears it
> up.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Bohrman" <jeffjaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Mailing List JFW" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:47 AM
> Subject: JFW 4, XP, Braille displays, and Ports
>
>
> Hello:
> I have a very difficult problem that my computer technician and others
can't
> seem to figure all that out. Most of the issues are related to the usage
of
> Jaws and the ports I have on my Desktop.
>
>
>
> I have a Dell 1.2 GHZ computer with three serial ports and a number of USB
> ports. Up to about three weeks ago, I had been using various Braille
> Display units (PB 80, PB 40, and BL M40) on COM1 without any problem. I
> have Windows XP Home edition operating system and use JFW 5 PRO. Now all
of
> the Braille Display units will not work on COM1 and COM2 but will work on
> COM4. I think the problem started when I installed a new printer with an
> USB cable.
>
>
>
> We contacted Dell who assisted us through performance test and they said
the
> COM1 was communicating fine and dandy. They could not help us further
> because we added the two serial ports on our own. FS said to use COM4 and
> that was it. The tech was here yesterday to try to figure out why COM1
and
> COM2 do not work and still no solution.
>
>
>
> While the tech was here, I simply pulled out an USB cable with no device
on
> it. Presto, the Braille display went blank! The tech had to power off
and
> on my system to get the COM4 to communicate with the display.
>
>
>
> And even more so weird was that we tried to install USB hub into the USB
> port in the back of the computer. Windows XP would not recognize it so we
> had to move the plug into the USB port in front of the CPU. I want to
point
> out that we also did the performance test for all USB ports and they were
> communicating fine and dandy as well. Jaws is damn strict when it comes
to
> using USB ports always getting confused if we change things around on USB
> ports.
>
>
>
> Why in the heck would the new printer cause all that havoc. We even
> uninstalled the printer driver but this did not help. Why aren't COM1 and
> COM2 working with Braille displays????
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Bohrman
>
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