From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: "Michael B. Allen" <mballen@erols.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: parport not detected
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 06:21:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010317062119.B13877@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010316185253.A865@nano.foo.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010316185253.A865@nano.foo.net>; from mballen@erols.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:53PM -0500
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:53PM -0500, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> The parallel port is not being detected on my ABIT KT7A KT133 w/ Athlon
Need dmesg output to see what parport is being told and what is
finding out for itself.
> BIOS options are:
>
> 728/IRQ5
^^^ 278, probably
> 378/IRQ7
> 3BC/IRQ7
But which one is it actually set to?
> Of the above what's optimal?
It depends what you're doing, really.
> I also tried an options line in modules.conf. I believe it was:
>
> options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7
Take that out and see what happens.
> That was reflected in /proc but no difference in actually "detecting"
> the parallel port.
I don't know what you mean really. Are you saying that you can't
print, or just that the device ID probe (to get the printer name)
isn't working?
> Also, if I build parpart into the kernel I get nothing but a
> hard lockup on 'Starting kswapd v 1.5'.
That's quite strange.
Which kernel version are you using? Take a look at the
'troubleshooting' section of Documentation/parport.txt.
Tim.
*/
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-16 23:52 parport not detected Michael B. Allen
2001-03-17 2:00 ` Tim Moore
2001-03-17 6:05 ` Michael B. Allen
2001-03-17 11:23 ` Tim Waugh
2001-03-17 11:21 ` Tim Waugh [this message]
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