Looking at the specs for the Enhanced Parallel Port there seems to be an interrupt line. I want to use this line to trigger an interrupt which can then be used to send a pulse to a process.
Does this map directly to the printer interrupt??, ie IRQ7.
I am using InterruptAttachEvent to attach an event to interrupt 7, but this doesn’t seems to work.
Any help or suggestions appreciated.
You probably need to enable the interrupt by calling InterruptUnmask(). Unlike most PC interrupts, I believe QNX doesn’t enable this one, as its own port driver doesn’t use the interrupt.
I have found out that I need to set bit 4 in the parallel port control register to make the ACK/Interrupt line cause an interrupt.
I have written a small program to do this. It works, the bit is set and when I run my program again to read in the value the bit is set. If I wait a few seconds longer the bit has been cleared.
Is their some other program that is clering this bit in the control register??, resource manager ???
Any insight would be appreciated.
It’s possible that devc-par is clearing it. Make sure you don’t have it running.
Great minds think alike.
I just did that and that solved the problem.
Cheers