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2007-03-17T14:35:19Z

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2007-03-16T18:35:32Z

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Here is what I did to get the Galep IV flash burner working in Linux. Questions and comments to [mailto:stepan@coresystems.de Stefan Reinauer].

== What is it? ==

* http://www.conitec.com/english/galep4.htm

== Parallel Port ==

My laptop has no more parallel port, so I got myself an ExSys EX-1365 1P Parallel PCMCIA 32bit card for 69€.
Conitec suggests buying a twice as expensive card, but the ExSys does SPP/EPP/ECP and it works fine.

Since the ExSys card comes with a short cable already, I used a gender changer instead of the cable that came with the Galep IV. This makes up for a nice free table.

The parport and parport module got loaded automatically, but I had to load the ppdev module manually after inserting the card.

There USB to Parallel converters based on the USS720 chips have a linux driver that implements a parport0 device as well. Maybe such a converter can be used as a cheaper alternative. But if you ever happen to try using the GalepIV in Windows, too, you better get a PCMCIA card, as the Galep32 software does not exactly have smart device handling.

== Distribution ==

I have been using an OpenSUSE 10.2 distribution, fairly default installation.
Since it did not work in the first place, I got an update RPM for wine 0.9.32, but I think that is not required.

== Wine ==

Ok, obviously you need to run this as root, or be able to write to /dev/parport0

* get the latest software from http://www.conitec.com/english/software.htm. At the time of this writing, the latest version is 1.17.50.
* Now start the installation program:
$ wine G32setup_11750.exe
:This should work without further trouble.
* Now start winecfg, go to the Applications tab and choose "Add application..."
* Choose "Program Files", then "GALEP32", then "Galep32.exe"
* Select "Windows 98" in the "Windows Version" selector below.
* Change to the "Libraries" tab.
* In the "New override for library:" field, select "msvcrt", then click "Add"
* Press Ok
* Open ~/.wine/user.reg in your favourite editor and add the following lines to the end of the file:
[Software\\Wine\\VDM\\ppdev]
"378"="/dev/parport0"
* Enter
$ rm -f .wine/dosdevices/lpt1
$ ln -s /dev/parport0 .wine/dosdevices/lpt1

That's it, when you start the application now, it should work fine and detect the GalepIV.

$ wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/GALEP32/Galep32.exe

== Convenience ==

I am using KDE, so I wanted to add an icon to my Desktop. The same is for sure possible with Gnome.

* right click on the desktop, choose "Create New", choose "Link to Application"
* choose a name (ie. GalepIV) and an icon.
* Go to the "Application" tab
* Add "Galep IV software" as Description
* Add the following line as Command
kdesu wine "/root/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/GALEP32/Galep32.exe"
* Add your homedirectory (or whatever) as working path
* Press Ok

@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 * In the "New override for library:" field, select "msvcrt", then click "Add"
 * Press Ok
-* Open ~/.wine/user.reg in your favourite editor and add the following lines to the end of the file:
+* (obsolete) Open ~/.wine/user.reg in your favourite editor and add the following lines to the end of the file:
   [Software\\Wine\\VDM\\ppdev]
   "378"="/dev/parport0"
-* Enter
+* (obsolete) Enter
   $ rm -f .wine/dosdevices/lpt1
   $ ln -s /dev/parport0 .wine/dosdevices/lpt1
 That's it, when you start the application now, it should work fine and detect the GalepIV.

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