Hi PCW,
I don't understand, How do I provide the current address?
Isn't that with
"loadrt hal_parport cfg =" 0xef00 out "in my hal file?
According to "lspci -v" the card has two addresses
ef00 / ee00
"loadrt hal_parport cfg =" 0xef00 out "in my hal file
Returns the error;
Linux parallel port @61184 not found
"loadrt hal_parport cfg =" 0xee00 out "in my hal file
Returns the error;
Linux parallel port @60928 not found
Where the numbers are of course the decimal form of the hex address
I think it just means LinuxCNC did not find a
parallel port driver (which should not be necessary
unless the hardware is so non-standard that it requires
a custom driver to enable normal operation)
I just tried loading hal_parport on a machine that definitely has a parallel port and one that definitely doesn't.
The error message appears on both. Both also create all the HAL pins.
It seems that the only way to tell if it has found the parallel port is to test the port.
This isn't as odd as it seems. The LinuxCNC driver just sends and reads data to a port address, it has no way to tell if anything is listening.
When I try to launch the cnc it just won't start up instead I get an error screen.
I had a working system, but linuxcnc indicated that the computer were too slow.
That is why I moved the hdd to a faster computer, without a parallel port and plugged one into a free pci port.
I have two parallel cards, both give the same error.
