primax: Primax drivers ported to libieee1284
Subject:
Primax drivers ported to libieee1284
From:
Andre Herms ####@####.####
Date:
29 Oct 2002 16:37:19 -0000
Message-Id: <200210291732.35848.aherms@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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Hi everybody,
I used the last days and ported the libprimax to the libieee1284. This is a
portable library for parallel port access.
More information at : http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/
It currently supports Linux, Windows!, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris. so now
all these platforms are supported by the primax driver.
The Linux 2.4.x Kernel have ann internal parallel port layer. This is also
used if available. It is possible to use the driver as non-root user -
because there is an character device /dev/parportx where you can set
permissions.
Additionally it got a great performance boost. I measured that is 2 times as
fast as before ( with 300 dpi ).
At the moment it is only in the CVS. I will soon create a tar archive, when I
finished the documentation.
For all who cannot wait:
* install the libieee1284 from the above location
* get the latest version from the CVS
* compile it, run it, be impressed ;-).
Andre
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Andre Herms ####@####.####
http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aherms
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