From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 9:44:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diablo.peritek.com (diablo.peritek.com [198.151.249.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA7714DE7 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from neptune (neptune [198.151.249.84]) by diablo.peritek.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA15149; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:44:49 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-From: ibjoe@home.com X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <2.2.32.19991228174449.0099aa80@netmail.home.com> X-Sender: ibjoe@netmail.home.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:44:49 -0800 To: Dann Lunsford From: Joe Bo Subject: Re: Parallel Port Control Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks! OK, so all I have to do is write a C program using ioctl to control the printer port.. guess I can handle that.. Thanks again! Joe Bo At 04:42 PM 12/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:32:49AM -0900, Robert Norgard wrote: >> Would anyone have suggestions on where to find information on >> taking control of the parallel port to manipulate the i/o >> lines directly? I need to control some external hardware in >> real time. The i/o lines would need to be strobed about 1500 >> times/sec. Any problem with this rate? >> >> Any suggestions? > > /usr/share/examples/ppi, for the first. > > That rate is probably not a problem, depending on what you do >in between. The times I've run PLIP were much faster than that. > > > > >-- >Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil >dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message