Please recommend PCI-E Parallel Port card

here are pictures of both of the cards i received and the output of lspci was in the previous post. not sure how you tell if this is a genuine pex card or not...
the syba card-




the startech card-

it complains, but ultimately it works. dont really trust it tho
when i use address "0 out", it crashes on startup with:

hal_parport makes _no_ use of the linux parallel port driver so as long as the card operates,
it should be fine

( heck, you might be better off if Linux doesn't know about the card )

If the Linux OS did not find the card its expected that the port 0,1,2 shortcut cannot work so
its not a crash, just inability to find the parallel port base address from the OS index

The only case where its necessary for Linux's driver to initialize the card is
with broken parallel port hardware that requires non-standard initialization to work

is it possible to suppress the error message on startup? i know its only a click away, but...

oddwick wrote: for the homing sequence (XYZ on a XYYZ gantry), x homes normally, and only y1 homes while y0 is stationary (you can see how that doesnt end well...).

Joints 1 and 2 should have JOME_SEQUENCE = -2
(negative numbered axes are homed as pairs)

oddwick wrote: the error i get when i run linuxcnc:

Code:

Linux parallel port @57360 not found

This seems odd, as 57360 = 0xE010

But your HAL has "loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1060 out""
Which is a completely different number.

The dmesg and lspci both say that 0xE010 should be right.

andypugh wrote:

oddwick wrote: the error i get when i run linuxcnc:

Code:

Linux parallel port @57360 not found

This seems odd, as 57360 = 0xE010

But your HAL has "loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1060 out""
Which is a completely different number.

The dmesg and lspci both say that 0xE010 should be right.

thats my mistake! i zipped up the folder that i used to transfer my configs from old box to new. the new one is absolutely identical to that one, except for the change of address and i had to comment out the mplayer lines. felt like an idiot, couldnt figure out why it wouldnt start up forever until i realized i hadnt installed mplayer yet... its the stupid mistakes that drive you crazy

andypugh wrote: Joints 1 and 2 should have JOME_SEQUENCE = -2
(negative numbered axes are homed as pairs)

as soon as i get back to the shop i will give that a go. the odd thing is that it works as expected on the old box with identical configs. will that affect individual homing sequences?