Am Mon, 2001-10-29 um 10.08 schrieb Tim Waugh:
> I will assume then that the lsmod output you showed before was
> incomplete and that ppdev probably was there after all (2.4.13 has the
> ppdev-doesn't-load bug fixed already).
Actually i hadn't compiled it in the running kernel because of some
strange error messages i had a month ago, i put it in again and it looks
like the error has gone.
> There is a VMware bug that has been identified that might be catching
> you out here: although it doesn't use the kernel for parallel port
> access (it just writes to the ports directly), it _does_ use it for
> detecting ports in the first place. However, it makes the mistake of
> asking the kernel what hardware transfer modes it will use, rather
> than doing its own probing to find out what hardware transfer modes
> are available (regardless of whether or not the kernel will use
> them).
I guess youre right about that, had the same impression
> A workaround should be to specify the base address and IRQ line to
> parport_pc. See Documentation/parport.txt for how to do that.
I did that (i guess, i used insmod parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=auto and got
a lot of unresolved symbols) and after that vmware told me that
/dev/parport0 would be used by another application.
when I removed the lp module (as recommended on the vmware page) it says
"Unsupported parallel port hardware (no PS/2 or ECP mode) for
/dev/parport0. Device parallel0 will start disconnected"
I guess i forgot something, but what?
thank for spending time on that subject,
Gian
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