From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 9 20:29:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09278 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09271 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA05099; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Kukulies cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nv and qcam In-Reply-To: <199704081136.NAA28189@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Anyone having a newer nv and is knowing why I'm getting > Bidirectional port found. Hack qc_readbyte to use. > Bidirectional port found. Hack qc_readbyte to use. > Bidirectional port found. Hack qc_readbyte to use. Because your parallel port is bidirectional capable. GO into the qcam code and disable the printf() or disable bidir mode on your printer. NV is **deprecated**. Use vic instead. I have a qcam'd vic that uses the qcam kernel driver in 2.2 and later. > Either qc_readbyte is in nv (from which I don't have the sources. (does > anyone have?) or it once was in qcam.c and has changed - at least the > message I get seems to come out of nv. It may be using the ancient libqcam and/or compiled static. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major