Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:17:50 +0100 | | From | Alexandre Maret <> | | Subject | [offtopic] Re: An ODD question. |
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Charlie Ross wrote: > [snip] > And allong similar lines... I have an extra LED (namely the turbo led) > which is also doing nothing... posibility of doing doftware control on it? > IE kernel swaping... or net activity... or somthing? > > Do I need to get a card for this? if so what kind? does linux support it? > and about how much do they run... > > Anyone else have any suggestions for uses for my buttons and led?
you can do it without special card for this, you can use your parallel port to do it. I know there is some source code to do this (using the parallel port to drive an lcd display to show the cpu activity). Take a look on sunsite...
and it's done in userspace... that's why it's offtopic on linux-kernel...
alex
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