From: Frank Mori Hess Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:14:01 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Made a few updates to install instructions. X-Git-Tag: r0_7_71~19 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b29345bc5c4fe0ad9399de2f74af7f739da43f8b;p=comedi.git Made a few updates to install instructions. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 411d1fb0..f89a383b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ directory. * Module Autoloading: +For recent kernels, module autoloading is handled by udev. The +following is only applicable to older kernels. + If you like to autoload your modules, put the following lines into /etc/modules.conf (this does not apply for PCMCIA cards): @@ -148,24 +151,18 @@ following lines into /etc/conf.modules: alias char-major-98-0 dt282x post-install dt282x /etc/dt282x.conf +* Calibration: + If your board has self-calibration capabilities, -will want to run comedi_calibrate, an autocalibration tool that is part -of comedilib, in a bootup script. +will want to run comedi_calibrate, an autocalibration tool that +is packaged in a seperate tarball, in a bootup script. * PCMCIA: -Linux-2.4 kernels are recommended for PCMCIA drivers, since 2.2 -kernel require the separate PCMCIA package. It is possible to -use 2.2 kernels with PCMCIA, although it is necessary to modify -the top level Makefile. - -Comedi works with several PCMCIA cards, and the driver modules can -be loaded and unloaded upon insertion and removal of the card. -The necessary configuration files are in the Comedilib source -package. Copy the files in etc/pcmcia/ to /etc/pcmcia and restart -card services. The pcmcia script provided is very simple -- it only -uses /dev/comedi0 for devices, which is a limitation if you have -other Comedi devices in your system. +The PCMCIA drivers require at least a 2.6.16 kernel (at for +unpatched mainline kernels). You must also have pcmciautils +and udev installed. You can write a udev rule to automatically +run gpib_config after the driver is loaded. * Upgrading: