I am trying to write my own device driver for Egosys miditerminal 4140,
which is an midi interface via parallel port.
As I'm really newbie in programming in kernel mode and writing device
drivers, the first step I could imagine was
to make a working userland drivers.
According to the manual, it needs ECP or EPP mode to work and finds out
its own IRQ. I looked up in the M$ windows control panel
to see what DMA, io addr, IRQ it uses -- no tab in its driver section.
ooops.
The first stuff I could imagine was to load the parport.o anyway. I
read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt and followed the steps.
After loading, I could see no device probed in /proc/sys/dev/parport*
Ooops, I'm stuck. So I did write a sample (& simple ) userland program
to read raw parport devices. The code follows.
--- < snip > -----------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/ppdev.h>
#include <linux/parport.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/poll.h>
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, mode;
int negotiate_first=0;
struct pollfd pfd;
int pollret=0;
char rchar=0;
int nread=0;
if ( argc!=2 ) {
printf("Usage: %s [dev]\n", argv[0]);
exit(0);
}
fd = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY);
if ( fd < 0 ) {
perror("open");
exit(0);
}
if ( ioctl (fd, PPCLAIM) ) {
perror("PPCLAIM");
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
mode = IEEE1284_MODE_ECP;
if (negotiate_first ) {
if (ioctl (fd, PPNEGOT, &mode) ) {
perror("PPNEGOT");
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
/* no need for PPSETMODE */
} else {
if ( ioctl (fd, PPSETMODE, &mode) ) {
perror("PPSETMODE");
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
}
for ( ; ;) {
struct pollfd pfd;
pfd.fd = fd;
pfd.events = POLLIN;
if ( poll(&pfd, 1, 1000 ) > 0 ) {
while ( (nread=read(fd, &rchar, 1)) > 0 )
printf("%x ", rchar);
}
printf(".");
fflush(stdout);
}
/* Okay, finished */
ioctl (fd, PPRELEASE);
close (fd);
}
--- < snip > -----------------
OK. I ran the program as root, tried EPP and ECP for all the devices (
parport{0,1,2,3} ) while sending some midi input signals through my
keyboard. All I could see was just <dot>s ! Nothing was coming in to
the raw device.
Ooops, I'm really stuck. I have no idea what to try next. I'm really
wondering what's going on. Please help me.
And if you have any idea of what parallel-port midi device should look
like, It'll be great!
Thanks in advance.
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