RE: pcimdda.c

Calin,
	I will be your tester if you want to send me the new driver.

Thanks for everyone support!

Tim Curry

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Calin A. Culianu [mailto:calin_at_ajvar.org]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:00 AM
> >To: David Schleef
> >Cc: Curry, Timothy E (Contractor-Summit); comedi_at_comedi.org
> >Subject: Re: pcimdda.c
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, David Schleef wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:36:44PM -0400, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> >> > Well, please call Computer Boards and ask them, that 
> >would be great!  The
> >> > thing to ask is roughly: "whether or not analog output 
> >range can be
> >> > specified through software only, because the manual 
> >makes no mention of
> >> > any registers for changing channel range, only some on-board DIP
> >> > switches."
> >>
> >> If the board has jumpers, it is highly doubtful that you can set
> >> the gain in software.
> >>
> >> The proper way to tell a driver the jumper settings is to use
> >> the additional devconfig options, which are set by the user on
> >> the comedi_config caommand line.  Since these are driver-specific,
> >> they need to be documented.  See dt282x.c for an example.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Ah! I see.. then I should investigate this and update the driver
> >accordingly.  That way, at least, the driver will inform the 
> >application
> >of the right range settings depending on how the board is physically
> >jumpered (assuming the devconfig options were correct).  I 
> >wanted to avoid
> >doing this since really I *thought* it might be a drag for 
> >users to have
> >to set devconfig options.. but maybe I can just have reasonable
> >defaults for people that want no-hassles...
> >
> >Thanks Dave, I will update the driver to support config options...
> >
> >-Calin
> >

Received on 2002-08-14Z18:12:42