NAME
comedi_config - COMEDI configuration utility
SYNOPSIS
comedi_config [-vVq] /dev/comediN <driver> [<option1>[,<option2>...]]
DESCRIPTION
comedi_config is used to configure comedi drivers. You must have
comedi support compiled into your kernel or loaded as a separate module
in order to use this utility. Each control and measurement device is
associated with a particular comedi device file /dev/comediN, where N
is 0,1,2,3, etc. Comedi_config allows you to associate a particular
driver and device with a comedi device file, and also configure driver
parameters for the particular device.
Comedi_config can be used with optional parameters which are driver
dependent. Parameters are specified by comma-delimited list of
integers. The integers may be expressed as decimal, hexidecimal
(starting with 0x) or octal (stating with 0). In addition, a parameter
may be left blank, indicating 0. PCI-based devices typically require
no parameters, although some allow you to specify the bus and slot of
the card to configure as the first two parameters. ISA-based devices
typically use the first and second parameters to indicate I/O base
address and interrupt level.
More information about the parameters required by individual drivers
can be found in the comedi documentation, in the file drivers.txt.
OPTIONS
comedi_config recognizes the following options:
-q, --quiet don’t print output while running.
-v, --verbose print verbose output while running.
-V, --version print version number and exit.
-r, --remove remove previously configured driver.
--read-buffer num
set read buffer size to num kilobytes. The default size is 64k.
--write-buffer num
set write buffer size to num kilobytes. The default size is
64k.
-i, --init-data, --init-data0 file
upload initialization data (typically firmware) from file to
board.
--init-data1 file
--init-data2 file
--init-data3 file
Some drivers require more than one file for initialization data.
Use these options to specify additional initialization data
files. See the driver-specific documentation for further
details.
CONFIGURATION FILE
[This section has not been implemented yet.]
A list of device configurations can be put into the file
/etc/comedi.conf. This file takes the form
<device> <driver> <param1>,<param2>,...
These configurations will be read and performed when the switch -a is
used. This is potentially useful when run from an initialization
script.
EXAMPLES
A National Instruments PCI-MIO E series board can be configured to use
/dev/comedi0 using the command:
comedi_config /dev/comedi0 ni_pcimio
A National Instruments AT-MIO E series board can be configured to use
/dev/comedi3 using the command:
comedi_config /dev/comedi3 ni_atmio 0x220,3
This tells the driver that the board is configured for I/O base 0x220
and IRQ 3.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional text documentation can be found in
/usr/doc/comedilib-0.7.11. The current version of Comedi and Comedilib
can be obtained from ftp://ftp.comedi.org/pub/comedi. The Comedi web
site is located at http://www.comedi.org/comedi.
SEE ALSO
comedi(7)
VERSION
0.7.x
AUTHOR
David Schleef, <ds@schleef.org>
comedi_config(8)