On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 18:43 -0400, al davis wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2007 15:32, John Griessen wrote: > > The existing NI hardware isn't required. They will support > > LXI, which is ethernet-like, and expensive. > > That doesn't eliminate the need for NI software. What good is > that?
I have used NI software in Linux. The "C" API in their nidaq mx-base wasn't really up-to what I'd expected of a company like NI. It required polling, and didn't have time-stamping or means to synchronise the sampled data. This might be because I'm using a very very cheap NI USB DAQ card, and you're "supposed" to use it with Labview. Making the drivers work under a non-supported linux distro was "fun", and involved fixing up the source for their kernel module. (The open part just loads binary .o files, so it taints the kernel). Peter _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user