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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:29:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nv and qcam
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409202810.4997O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704081136.NAA28189@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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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




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