Re: linux-2.4.12 / linux-2.4.13 parallel port problem

[Dave Garry <daveg@firsdown.demon.co.uk>]

Tim,

Thanks for the tip, but it's not helping. I've tried
"irq=auto" and "irq=7" but it still wont play.

I just noticed that CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is set to NO
and I'm rebuilding with it set to YES to see if that
helps...

This option was also off when I was using 2.4.10 so
I'm not sure if it will help.

-- 
Dave Garry,
Daemon Solutions Ltd


Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:16:51PM +0100, Dave Garry wrote:
> 
> > With kernel 2.4.12 and 2.4.13 the parallel port on
> > my machine looks like this according to dmesg:
> >
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
> 
> Yes.  It's showing you what modes it is prepared to use.
> 
> > Under 2.4.10 is looks like this:
> [...]
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
> 
> A bug; it was showing you what modes the hardware was capable of,
> _despite_ knowing that it wasn't going to use it.
> 
> The parport driver will only use ECP and parallel port FIFO modes if
> it has an IRQ to use.  Try 'irq=auto'.
> 
> Tim.
> */