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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