[cpia] cpia 0.6.0 and non ECP ports
Nick Holloway
Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk
6 Feb 2000 14:20:14 -0000
sbertin@mindspring.com writes:
> On 5 Feb, Nick Holloway wrote:
> > All I needed to do was to relax the test on the parport type in
> > "cpia_pp_register", and allow PCSPP to be used. I suspect that the
> > actual test may be different, but I leave that to someone who understands
> > parallel port modes, and what the CPiA camera can be used with.
>
> I tried your patch with my parallel port set to SPP and couldn't get it
> to work. I'm guessing that it should check for PARPORT_MODE_TRISTATE, not
> PARPORT_MODE_PCSPP. What do the logs say when your parallel port is
> detected?
The kernel detects it as:
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
So your guess would seem to correct.
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