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Jaglover
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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: Parallel port not working - Matsonic MSCLE266F [solved] |
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I'm installing Gentoo on mentioned motherboard and no matter what I do parport is not picked up by kernel.
All I get is: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
All ideas and tips are welcome.
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hensan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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These are the options I have selected in the kernel config, and my parallel port works:
Device Drivers -> Parallel port support -> Parallel port support, PC-style hardware and IEEE 1284 transfer modes |
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for reply!
What kernel you are using? I'm with latest stable gentoo. And what settings for parport you have set in the BIOS? |
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hensan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Currently I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r13.
This is what I get in dmesg:
| Code: | parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 720C
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). |
I haven't looked at my BIOS settings in ages, so I'm not sure what they are saying, but I don't recall ever changing the parport settings from their defaults... One setting that I remember caused problems way back when was a "Plug and Play aware OS" setting. Check if you have something similar and try changing it. |
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks again. Good to know it's possible. Will work on it.  |
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Jaglover
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It works with parport compiled as module and won't work when compiled in.  |
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