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

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 08:36:01 EST

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.
*/


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Oct 31 2001 - 21:00:20 EST