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- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: Dials and Buttons
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.002121.18374@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
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- Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <BxKK38.4sx@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:21:21 GMT
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- In article <BxKK38.4sx@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- ssundara@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sridhar Sundararaman) writes:
- > This is regarding connecting dials and buttons on a 4D/20. I have gone
- through
- > all the steps the manual says to install the dials and buttons. The hard
- > wiring is fine and the software set up has been done through the System
- > widget. Though the system manager shows that the serial port 2 has the
- > Dials and Buttons, the dials are not responding to the checkdials
- program or
- > to SDRC-IDEAS. Checkdials says "No dials". Even the confidence test
- doesnt
- > work.
-
- I don't know if your 4D/20 needs what our Crimson Elan
- needed, which was a special serial port board we had to
- install to power the dials and buttons, and the
- stereoviewer. Interestingly, no one knew enough to tell
- us we had to order this board in the first place, and it took
- two months to get tech support to figure out the problem,
- get a board from the factory, chase people down on the
- phone, try and make sense of the somewhat hacked
- installation instructions... not very impressive for
- an otherwise impressive support organization.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
- PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
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- Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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