Re: gEDA-user: Re: Looking for a project

[Igor2 <igor2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

>There is a project called comedi which aims to provide a common linux 
>interface to all the A/D converter cards on the market. 
> ---> http://www.comedi.org/
>This is a long lived project with roots back in the early nineties. The 
>list of supported cards is quite impressive. I successfully used comedi to 
>read from an National Instruments card PCI-6071E. NI was a let down. They 
>promised a linux driver but delivered a proof of concept piece of 
>software that could not access the features I needed...

I can comfirm, had to use an advantech PCL 817 for a project and comedi
had support for the card (however i couldn't get the dma to work).

>Open source A/D hardware should come with a comedi driver.

I agree.




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