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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: long-term regression - Parallel Port broken?]
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:08:26 -0600
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On Friday 06 July 2007 03:20:36 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007 10:38:50 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > should I test the two individually? or just plan on useing both from now 
> > > on?
> > > I normally disable PnP (both ISA and PCI), should I leave it enabled with 
> > > the newer kernels and this motherboard?
> > 
> > Ultimately, you should have CONFIG_ACPI=y and CONFIG_PNPACPI=y, and you
> > should not have to boot with "noisapnp" or "pnpacpi=off".  My guess is
> > that you only need "pnpacpi=off" to work around the current problem.
> > 
> > At http://linux.lang.hm/linux, I see dmesg logs (with tons of
> > kobject debug that's useless to me) from 2.6.22-rc4.  It would
> > be useful to have the log from 2.6.22-rc4 with "pnpacpi=off"
> > (which I expect to work), so we could compare it with the
> > "2.6.22-rc4.dmesg" log, which I assume a non-working one.
> > 
> > Linux PNPACPI currently doesn't manage resources quite the same way
> > Windows does, and that might account for this problem.  You might
> > try this:
> > 
> >   - boot without "pnpacpi=off" (leave PNPACPI enabled)
> >   - before loading the parport_pc driver, do this:
> >     # echo "disable" > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources
> >     # echo "enable" > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources
> 
> Sorry, I meant:
> 
>      # echo "disable" > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources
>      # echo "clear"   > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources
>      # echo "enable"  > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources

Ping!  David, do you still care about this issue?