Comedi (control and measurement device interface) is a collection of device drivers for data acquisition devices. this includes most devices that have analog-to-digital (a/d) converters, digital-to-analog (d/a) converters, raw digital i/o, digital counters, and timers. well-known manufacturers include national instruments, data translation, and measurement computing. a list of supported devices can be found in /usr/share/doc/comedi-source/. these drivers are not included in the linux kernel source, so if you want to use these devices with debian, you should install this package and compile the modules.

the packages libcomedi0 and libcomedi-dev contain documentation about comedi and comedilib.

in order to compile these modules, you will need either the kernel sources or the debian kernel-headers and kernel-image packages. for compile instructions, look at /usr/share/doc/comedi-source/readme.debian or the documentation for the module-assistant utility.