Re: [PARPORT] parport_pc: Device or resource busy

From: Eric And Steff Runquist (steric@ameritech.net)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 21:53:32 EDT

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    That fixed it! The parallel port's BIOS setting was set to AUTO.
    After I changed it to ENABLE, the printer started working from
    Linux.

    Thanks a lot for all your help!

    Eric

    Tim Waugh wrote:

    > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:11:24AM -0400, Eric And Steff Runquist wrote:
    >
    > > After running insmod parport_pc with my parallel port's base IO address,
    > > I get this from dmesg:
    > >
    > > parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
    > > parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
    > > parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port
    > > there!
    >
    > Hardware issue. There's no port there. Is it definitely _enabled_ in
    > the BIOS?
    >
    > Tim.
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