Re: [offtopic] Re: An ODD question.

mdean (mdean@best.com)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:37:34 -0800 (PST)

If you are planning on playing with the parallel port I highly suggest you
by an inexpensive parallel I/O card ($20), the last thing you want is to
screw up your on board parallel I/O (I don't know where you could get the
damaged components fixed by themselves these days).

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Alexandre Maret wrote:

> Charlie Ross wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > And allong similar lines... I have an extra LED (namely the turbo led)
> > which is also doing nothing... posibility of doing doftware control on it?
> > IE kernel swaping... or net activity... or somthing?
> >
> > Do I need to get a card for this? if so what kind? does linux support it?
> > and about how much do they run...
> >
> > Anyone else have any suggestions for uses for my buttons and led?
>
> you can do it without special card for this, you can use
> your parallel port to do it. I know there is some source
> code to do this (using the parallel port to drive an lcd
> display to show the cpu activity). Take a look on sunsite...
>
> and it's done in userspace... that's why it's offtopic on
> linux-kernel...
>
> alex
>
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