Re: Problems with 2.3.99-pre6

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 15:43:05 EST


On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:06:12AM +1200, Craig Whitmore wrote:

> It does not autodetact the irq of the parallel port and loads with
> no irq for the parallel port and plip gives a warning about no irq
> for the parallel port.
>
> but if you give the option irq=7 it finds the parallel port properly

Yes, sometimes it isn't possible to automatically detect the IRQ
(without knowing more about which chipset it is). If your CMOS
setting for the port is 'ECP' it is more likely to have the IRQ
detected automatically.

Tim.
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