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Kif
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Joined: 04 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:19 am Post subject: parport is missing |
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Hi,
in one machine with a MSI KT8 NEO board (VIA KT800 chipset) I can't get the parport working.
I tried both : as a module (parport,parport_pc,lp) and included into the kernel. In neither case anything showed up in dmesg and cat /proc/interrupts does give no indication either that there is a parport. I tried various settings in Bios for the parport either but to no avail.
Since its working with XP there isn't a hardware problem.
Here is the relevant section from my kernel config :
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# Parallel port support
#
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
#
# Plug and Play support
#
#
# Block devices
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set
CONFIG_PARIDE=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
#
# Parallel IDE high-level drivers
#
CONFIG_PARIDE_PD=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PCD=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PF=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PT=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PG=m
#
# Parallel IDE protocol modules
#
CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_COMM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_DSTR=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT2=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT3=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPAT=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPATC8=y
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPIA=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRIQ=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRPW=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KBIC=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KTTI=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON20=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON26=m
CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA=m
CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA=m
# CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_LBD=y
...
#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
# CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE is not set
# CONFIG_PPDEV is not set
# CONFIG_TIPAR is not set
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It's not an IRQ-problem either because I hardwired the port to IRQ 7 in Bios - and IRQ 7 is not used by any other device .
Any ideas why the parport doesn't show up - I'm really running out of ideas 
TIA,
Klaus |
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piewie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:30 am Post subject: |
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cat /proc/interrupts doesn't show my parport either. But a dmesg | grep lp0 says that:
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
I had also problems with kernel 2.6.9-rc2 to rc4 and printer detection:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=238468&highlight=
wnelson wrote:
| Quote: | I had the same problem now it works with the following.
<M> Parallel port support
<M> PC-style hardware
<M> Multi-IO cards (parallel and serial)
[ ] Use FIFO/DMA if available (EXPERIMENTAL)
[ ] SuperIO chipset support (EXPERIMENTAL)
[ ] Support foreign hardware
[*] IEEE 1284 transfer modes
-- Character devices
<M> Parallel printer support |
I didn't test it, because my printer came back with 2.6.9-rc4-mm1. But because of problems with cd burning I will switch back to 2.6.7. |
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Kif
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:24 am Post subject: |
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hmm, using exactly the settings given below, I recompiled as modules and now its working  - somehow strange, since I could swear that I had these settings before and it was not working.
Maybe it had also something to do with the loading order of the modules - I put them top 3 slots in my autoload.modules.d/kernel-2.6 file now while before they were at the end or I loaded the modules manually - just guessing and happy it's working now - I'm using kernel 2.6.9-ck1 btw. (I did try other kernels before ... - it wasn't a ck-problem) and from what I see its working fine although marked as ~amd64 ...
Thanks for your help ! |
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