data acquisition boards, including A/D converters, D/A converters,
digital I/O and timers.
-The hardware drivers that are installed on your system may include
-one or more of the following:
-
- \fB8255\fR - Generic 8255 support
-.br
- \fBdas08\fR - Keithley DAS08 and compatibles
-.br
- \fBdt2811\fR - Data Translation DT2811
-.br
- \fBdt2814\fR - Data Translation DT2814
-.br
- \fBdt2817\fR - Data Translation DT2817
-.br
- \fBdt282x\fR - Data Translation DT2821 series
-.br
- \fBni_E\fR - National Instruments AT-MIO E series
-.br
- \fBni_E\fR - National Instruments AT-MIO (Am9513 based)
.br
- \fBparport\fR - Standard PC parallel port digital I/O
-.br
- \fBpcl711\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-711, 711B
-.br
- \fBpcl711\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-725
-.br
- \fBpcl711\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-726
-.br
- \fBrti800\fR - Analog Devices RTI-800/815
-
.SH OTHER DOCUMENTATION
-The following man pages may be useful:
+Hardware and driver configuration, and device-specific information,
+can be found in the \fBcomedi\fR souce, in the file
+Documentation/comedi/drivers.txt.
+
+.br
+Programming documentation for comedilib can be found in
+/usr/doc/comedilib, or also at http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi.
-\fBcomedi_config\fR(8),
+.SH SEE ALSO
-Additional text documentation is located in /usr/doc/comedi-0.5.0.
+\fBcomedi_config\fR(8),
+\fBcomedi_calibrate\fR(8)
.SH VERSION
-0.5.0
-
-The current version can be found at ftp://stm.lbl.gov/pub/comedi.
+0.7.x
.SH AUTHOR
-David Schleef, <ds@stm.lbl.gov>
+David Schleef, <ds@schleef.org>
<option1>[,<option2>...]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
-\fBcomedi_config\fR is a utility designed to configure
-control and measurement hardware associated with a particular
-\fBcomedi\fR device. You must have the \fBcomedi\fR module installed
-in the kernel to use this utility.
+\fBcomedi_config\fR is used to configure \fBcomedi\fR drivers.
+You must have \fBcomedi\fR support compiled
+into your kernel or loaded as a separate module in order
+to use this utility.
+Each control and measurement device is associated with a
+particular \fBcomedi\fR device file \fB/dev/comedi\fRN, where
+N is 0,1,2,3, etc.
+\fBComedi_config\fR allows you to associate a particular
+driver and device with a \fBcomedi\fR device file, and also
+configure driver parameters for the particular device.
+
+\fBComedi_config\fR can be used with optional
+parameters which are driver dependent. Parameters are
+specified by comma-delimited list of integers. The integers
+may be expressed as decimal, hexidecimal (starting with 0x)
+or octal (stating with 0). In addition, a parameter may be
+left blank, indicating 0. PCI-based devices typically
+require no parameters. ISA-based devices typically use
+the first and second parameters to indicate I/O base
+address and interrupt level.
+
+More information about the parameters required by individual
+drivers can be found in the \fBcomedi\fR documentation, in
+the file \fBdrivers.txt\fR.
-Each control and measurement card in your computer is associated
-with an individual comedi device; to a user, these appear as the
-files \fB/dev/comedi\fRN, with N being 0,1,2,3,etc. To configure
-\fBcomedi\fR to use a particular hardware driver for your card,
-you would use this utility with the device file, driver name, and
-other vital parameters (I/O base address, IRQ, etc.) on the
-command line.
-
-As an example, the command line used to tell the comedi module that
-you want to access a National Instruments AT-MIO E series board as
-\fB/dev/comedi0\fR would be:
-
- /usr/sbin/comedi_config /dev/comedi0 atmio-E 0x220,3
-
-This tells the driver that the board is configured
-for I/O base 0x220 and IRQ 3. In general, I/O base is listed first
-and IRQ, if necessary, is listed second. Additional parameters
-vary, so see the information below for the particular driver.
-
-Parameters can be expressed in either decimal or hexadecimal, with
-a 0x prefix.
.SH OPTIONS
\fBcomedi_config\fR recognizes the following options:
-\fB-a\fR obtain configuration information from the file
-/fB/etc/comedi.conf/fR.
-
-\fB-q\fR don't print output while running.
-
-\fB-v\fR print verbose output while running.
-
-\fB-V\fR print version number and exit.
-
-.SH HARDWARE DRIVERS
-
-Additional information pertaining to each hardware driver is
-available in \fB/usr/doc/comedi-0.5.0\fR. Unless noted,
-the names below are the same as the driver names given on
-the command line.
-
-\fB8255\fR Generic 8255 support
-.br
- <I/O base>
-
-\fBdas08\fR - Keithley DAS08 and compatibles
-.br
- <I/O base>
-
-\fBdt2811\fR - Data Translation DT2811
-.br
- <I/O base>
-.br
- Interrupts are not used with this board.
-
-\fBdt2814\fR - Data Translation DT2814
-.br
- <I/O base>,<IRQ>
-.br
- Set IRQ to -1 to probe for IRQ.
-
-\fBdt2817\fR - Data Translation DT2817
-.br
- <I/O base>
-
-\fBdt282x\fR - Data Translation DT2821 series
-.br
- <I/O base>,<IRQ>,<DMA 1>,<DMA 2>,
-<analog reference>,
-<encoding, analog input>,
-<encoding, analog output 0>,
-<encoding, analog output 1>,
-<voltage range, analog input>,
-<voltage range, analog output 0>,
-<voltage range, analog output 1>.
-.br
- Valid values for analog reference are 0=single ended,
-1=differential.
-Valid values for encoding are
-[0=straight or offset binary, 1=two's complement].
-Valid values for voltage range are
-0=(-10,10), 1=(0,10), 2=(-5,+5), 3=(0,5),
-4=(-2.5,2.5).
-Options must agree with how your board is
-configured.
-.br
- The driver recognizes the following names:
-\fBdt2821\fR,
-\fBdt2823\fR,
-\fBdt2824-pgh\fR,
-\fBdt2824-pgl\fR,
-\fBdt2825\fR,
-\fBdt2827\fR,
-\fBdt2828\fR.
-Use the name that best represents your board.
-
-\fBatmio-E\fR - National Instruments AT-MIO E series
-.br
- <I/O base>,<IRQ>
-.br
- This driver automatically detects which board is installed
-in your computer. The E-series boards are plug-and-play, so use
-\fBisapnptools\fR to tell the board which I/O port to use before
-running \fBcomedi_config\fR. In a random fit of stupidity, the
-E-series boards ignore the IRQ which PnP assigns to it.
-
-\fBparport\fR - Standard PC parallel port digital I/O
-.br
- <I/O base>
-.br
- This driver does not work with the new parallel port sharing
-capabilities of Linux.
-
-\fBpcl711\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-711, 711B, ACL-8112
-.br
- <I/O base>
-.br
- Use the driver name \fBpcl711b\fR to configure for a 711B board.
+\fB-q, --quiet\fR don't print output while running.
-\fBpcl725\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-725
-.br
- <I/O base>
-.br
+\fB-v, --verbose\fR print verbose output while running.
-\fBpcl726\fR - PC-LabCard PCL-726
-.br
- <I/O base>
-.br
+\fB-V, --version\fR print version number and exit.
-\fBrti800\fR - Analog Devices RTI-800/815
-.br
- <I/O base>
.SH CONFIGURATION FILE
switch \fB-a\fR is used. This is potentially useful when
run from an initialization script.
-.SH OTHER DOCUMENTATION
+.SH EXAMPLES
-\fBcomedi\fR(7),
+A National Instruments PCI-MIO E series board can be
+configured to use /dev/comedi0 using the command:
-Additional text documentation is located in /usr/doc/comedi-0.5.0.
+ /usr/sbin/comedi_config /dev/comedi0 ni_pcimio
-.SH VERSION
+A National Instruments AT-MIO E series board can be
+configured to use /dev/comedi3 using the command:
+
+ /usr/sbin/comedi_config /dev/comedi3 ni_atmio 0x220,3
+
+This tells the driver that the board is configured
+for I/O base 0x220 and IRQ 3.
+
+.SH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
+
+Additional text documentation can be found in /usr/doc/comedilib-0.7.11.
+The current version of \fBComedi\fR and \fBComedilib\fR can be
+obtained from ftp://stm.lbl.gov/pub/comedi. The Comedi web site
+is located at http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi.
-0.5.0
+.SH SEE ALSO
+
+\fBcomedi\fR(7)
+
+.SH VERSION
-The current version can be obtained from ftp://stm.lbl.gov/pub/comedi.
+0.7.x
.SH AUTHOR
-David Schleef, <ds@stm.lbl.gov>
+David Schleef, <ds@schleef.org>
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