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SubjectRe: parport not detected
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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