From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 18:39:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wireless.net (wireless.net [207.137.156.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3598A14D1F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Received: from db.wireless.net (db.wireless.net [209.75.70.101]) by wireless.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA07953 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04075 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Message-ID: <380FC168.686EF512@wireless.net> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:44:08 -0700 From: Devin Butterfield X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Parallel port i/o... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am currently working on a project that needs to read and write data to and from the parallel port under FreeBSD 3.3. I am wondering if there is any possibility that the standard parallel port driver might interfere with my user mode program's i/o instructions? In other words, should I disable the parallel port driver at boot time with userconfig, or can I expect to have reliable i/o to the parallel port with the driver enabled? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated! -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message