Amen on the coffee. Still on first cup. Did you try the .hal equivalent of explicitly configuring the parport like: loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x0378 out"? And as Rayh said, you might need resistors. Is it a "standard" desktop PC with on-board parport?
Keep us posted, Emory On Dec 20, 2007 7:54 AM, Ray Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These suggestions may be irrelevant, John. I've not had a full dose of > coffee. > > Is the bios for this parport set to spp or out? > Have you tried inverting these pins using HAL's parport parameters? > > I seem to remember that a couple of the pins you list were considered > inverted in hardware but that diagram seems to have gone away. From the > current HAL User Manual it sounds like HAL takes account of pins that > were inverted in hardware. > > Also long ago we had to use external pull-up or pull-down resistors to > create a well behaved parport. > > Rayh > > > > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 06:41 -0600, John Thornton wrote: > > I have a CNC4PC parallel port breakout board connected to my parallel port > > via a > > parallel port cable. When testing all the outputs in EMC2 via the HAL > > command > > setp parport.0.pin-nn-out (all unlinked first) pins 1, 8, 9, 14 and 16 do > > not come on. > > > > Does this look like some kind of pattern or something? Any ideas? > > > > All the other pins in and out work as expected. > > > > Thanks > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Emory Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://defoliants.googlepages.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
