Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:28:08 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, "'chat@freebsd.org'" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IR Remote for AverMedia and FlyVideo Message-ID: <19990615132808.C71377@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617966F@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 02:03:43PM %2B0200 References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617966F@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: > [ML] Seriously, now. Are you trying to use the DTR line as a > transmitter? Somewhere in my basement should be the docs concerning the > Philips 5-bit infrared standard; I'm not certain whether one can match > the required rate by toggling the DTR. > [ML] /Marino Well the people in the Linux camp think so. It's a 30-40khz signal, which should be possible on the DTR line, using ioctl calls. The main problem is getting the timings accurate enough. My first tack was using usleep, which didn't work. Now I hard loop around a gettimeofday call, with the intention of running at a rtprio. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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