On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gene, a little update. > > I received the Lava card today. I installed it in the "new" PC. > > I also re-routed internal cabling, such that the cables are not too close > to touching the fans. This is a very small case and this always has been a > problem. > > To make PPMC driver see it, I had to say: > > loadrt hal_ppmc port_addr=0xd000 > > Yep, I did that, works great > I had to figure out argument name by doing "strings" on the hal_ppmc.ko > driver. But I found it and I am happy. > > Based on VERY PRELIMINARY tests, the card appears to be working! The only > thing that I tested, was to power up the machine and move all axes by hand. > I will, of course, try to do some more testing. > > i > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:20 PM, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >> On Friday, January 28, 2011 10:09:43 pm Igor Chudov did opine: >> >> > I received the Lava card today. I believe that it was shipped from IL >> > and that is why I got it so quickly. >> > >> > I disabled the on-board parallel port in BIOS during reboot. >> > >> > Lspci gives me the following: >> > >> > 04:01.0 Parallel controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Parallel (rev >> > 03) (prog-if 01) >> > Subsystem: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Parallel >> > Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- >> > ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- >> > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- >> > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- >> > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 >> > Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=8] >> > Kernel driver in use: parport_pc >> > Kernel modules: parport_pc >> > >> > The PC shows /dev/lp0. >> > >> > I have two questions: >> > >> > 1) What is the address (like 378 like it used to be)? Is d000 the >> > address? >> > >> I believe so. >> >> > 2) How do I tell EMC2 to connect to this card? >> > >> In your 'config-name'.hal, this >> loadrt probe_parport >> loadrt hal_parport cfg=0x378 >> >> will likely be replaced by >> loadrt probe_parport >> loadrt hal_parport cfg=0xd000 >> >> There may be other changes, but those are what comes to mind, and might >> extract some meaningful err messages that should lead to a complete fix. >> >> Keep us posted please, Igor. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> >> Do you have lysdexia? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! >> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >> price-free! >> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires >> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
