Re: [PARPORT] Support for my PCI add-on card

From: Gunther Mayer (Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 17:35:32 EST

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    Tim Waugh wrote:
    >
    > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:40:11PM -0800, Mohammed El Shobaki wrote:
    >
    > > Now to the problem: It seems that it does NOT support EPP???
    > > Who is right, the vendor or parport_pc?
    > > I must have EPP but I don't know how to deal with it in parport_pc (it's
    > > beyond my competence to dig into that code =)
    >
    > The vendor is probably right. You might need to poke registers in the
    > card to get it to do EPP or something. Gunther, do you know?
    >

    The autodetect code in parport_pc is often wrong and can even be
    harmful to parallel ports. It relies partly on undocumented behaviour
    and is poking aggressively at registers (e.g. ZIP Windows drivers
    refuse all ports but standard ones to avoid these sorts of problems, it seems).

    This is at 1st insmod (or after reboot):
    Feb 9 22:24:42 m3 kernel: parport1: PC-style at 0x6300 (0x6400) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]

    after rmmod I get this:
    Feb 9 22:53:28 m3 kernel: PCI parallel port detected: 1409:7168, I/O at 0x6300(0x6400)
    Feb 9 22:53:28 m3 kernel: parport: No ECR <-- custom debug code
    Feb 9 22:53:28 m3 kernel: parport1: PC-style at 0x6300 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]

    -
    Gunther

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