You just got the Linux driver software for the Analog Devices data
acquisition board RTI860. The driver was developed at FhG/IITB and is
nothing official from Analog Devices.


The driver is in use on a Pentium-75 Linux-box with a kernel 1.3.?? We
don't guarantee anything about its operation, but if you need any help,
feel free to mail me at kir@iitb.fhg.de.

CONTENTS:
  o source code for the driver, which is added to the kernel as an
    installable module (insmod, etc.)
		
  o source code for rti860set, a command line driven programm to set
    parameters of the driver and the board

  o mkdev, a script to generate the device special files to access the
    driver 

A manual page for the driver is currently missing. However, if you are
familiar with the operation of the RTI860, you should be able to use the
driver: Configure it with rti860set and then copy from the
device-special file.

I promise to write a manual page as soon as I get to know of at least
one person really keen on using this stuff ;-)


INSTALLATION

1) The driver currently uses device major number 58. Please check the
file
 
    /usr/include/linux/major.h

to make sure this does not interfere with any other device. If you
suspect you have to change it, you have to edit the file rti860.c at
about line 28, where it says

    #define RTI860_MAJOR 58

If you choose a number larger than MAX_CHRDEV in 
/usr/include/linux/major.h, make sure to change major.h as well and
recompile your kernel.


2) Run make. It creates rti860.o (the driver module) and rti860set.
   (Please ignore the two warnings.)

3) As root, install the driver into the kernel with
	make install

4) As root, create the device special files by running
	mkdev

5) Run rti860set to set up the driver and board. Use rti860set -h to see
a usage-message.

6) You now can digitize data by just reading the device special file
associated with your board. If it is at part 0x300, the least you can do
is something like

	cat /dev/rti860_300 >digitized.data

For a start, much more interesting will be s.th. like

	hexdump -v -e '8/2 "%6u "' -e '"\n"' /dev/rti860_300