[TAG] parallel port problem

[Thomas Adam]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:35:00AM -0800, maryam shafique wrote:

* Must resist.  Urge to flame rising... *

> hello,

Howdy.

> might be it is a stupid problem but my project is stuck coz of it,i am
> making a kiosk and in it a make a touch keypad i programmed it with
> parallel port and it is working effectively with pIII and pIV but it
> is not working with pII whereas my given target is with pII ,i checked
> parallel port in BIOS and set it as bidirectional with IRQ 7 and 378
> the same settings as in pIII and pIV but still i cant make parallel
> port as input port in pII ,i am using redaht 9.0 as my o/s,i am left

Woooh.  Breathe!  Breathe.  Try to relax.  So, just to clarify.  You do
realise that the architecture has nothing to do with the paralell port
working or not working, right?  

> with 2 days towards my deadline and i am totally stuck in this problem
> plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me out of it if u ahve nay idea.

We don't do homework, we despise HTML email, and we generally can only
help if the information presented to us is pertinent to your problem.
You've done relatively OK in supplying information, but what you haven't
done is:

-- Stated your problem.
-- Provided context for your problem.
-- Told us the commands you were using.
-- Given us output based on those commands.
-- Availed us of any error messages present.

There's nothing like leaving it till the last minute, eh?  Time
management is something that comes with experience, alas.  Might I
suggest though that if you're having these problems *now* -- that they
ought to have been mitigated in your *design*, rather than continually
hacking away at whatever program it is you're having to write in order
to control the parallel port.

-- Thomas Adam

--  
I've been too honest with myself, I should have lied like everybody else.