[vox-tech] Wine and HW access?

Ryan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:18:51 -0700


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On Friday 19 July 2002 02:26 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Ryan <ryan@mother.com>
> > Also; I need raw parallel port access, printer
> > support (it looks like wine uses CUPS/LPD, etc) isn't going to help m=
e.
>
> not to tell you the obvious, but...
>
> 1. have you tried googling for your answer?  i went to google groups an=
d
>    searched on "wine raw parallel port access" and saw a few threads
>    which might be relevent to your situation.
>
> 2. have you tried to post a question to winehq's mailing list?
>
> 3. have you tried to get support from the winex forums?  you're
>    entitled to free support from transgaming.
>
> considering not many people here have played around with wine, the thre=
e
> suggestions above seem to be more appropriate avenues of support for
> "non-standard" wine questions.
>
> pete

I got it to work as root by uncomenting the read/write sections under [po=
rts]=20
and modifing them to include my parallel port adress range.

There's also a [parallelports] section, but it doesn't seem to allow the =
kind=20
of access required.

- --=20
Windows 98 is like a gun - unless it's loaded, it's harmless.
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