Analog output, command: not supported

Hi there,
after getting my PCMCIA NI Daqcard 6036E running finally (using 
ni_mio_cs), I've been playing around with the demo programs. Since I 
really want to use the analog output of the card to control servos, I am 
worried about the message in info:
command:
not supported. (see below the output)
If I run outp from the demo programs, I get
writing 0 to device=/dev/comedi0 subdevice=0 channel=0 range=0 analog 
reference=0
/dev/comedi0: Invalid argument

But I can run inp without problems. So my question is: can I use the 
analog output channels at all? I have heard that the work with comedi 
for the pci board is there a way to add this functionality to ni_mio_cs, 
if it is not there already? I am not good at doing hardware related 
stuff though....

Please, any help or suggestions will be warmly welcomed!
thanks,
miriam

/demo# ./info                                    
overall info:
  version code: 0x010000
  driver name: ni_mio_cs
  board name: DAQCard-6036E
  number of subdevices: 8
subdevice 0:
  type: 1 (analog input)
  number of channels: 16
  max data value: 65535
  ranges:
    all chans: [-10,10] [-5,5] [-0.5,0.5] [-0.05,0.05]
  command:
    start: now|ext|int
    scan_begin: timer|ext
    convert: timer|ext
    scan_end: count
    stop: none|count
  command fast 1chan:
    start: now 0
    scan_begin: timer 5000
    convert: timer 5000
    scan_end: count 1
    stop: count 2
subdevice 1:
  type: 2 (analog output)
  number of channels: 2
  max data value: 65535
  ranges:
    all chans: [-10,10]
  command:
    not supported
subdevice 2:
  type: 5 (digital I/O)
  number of channels: 8
  max data value: 1
  ranges:
    all chans: [0,5]
  command:
    not supported
subdevice 3:
  type: 0 (unused)
subdevice 4:
  type: 6 (counter)
  number of channels: 2
  max data value: 1
  ranges:
    all chans: [0,1]
  command:
    not supported
subdevice 5:
  type: 9 (calibration)
  number of channels: 9
  max data value: (channel specific)
    chan0: 255
    chan1: 255
    chan2: 255
    chan3: 255
    chan4: 255
    chan5: 255
    chan6: 255
    chan7: 255
    chan8: 4095
  ranges:
    all chans: [0,1]
  command:
    not supported
subdevice 6:
  type: 8 (memory)
  number of channels: 512
  max data value: 255
  ranges:
    all chans: [0,1]
  command:
    not supported
subdevice 7:
  type: 5 (digital I/O)
  number of channels: 10
  max data value: 1
  ranges:
    all chans: [0,1]
  command:
    not supported

Received on 2003-10-29Z15:57:09