Re: Printer Device Configuration Problems

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:11:39 +0100


>Do I have a sudden hardware problem?

No, you have an IRQ conflict. You've got both your sound card and your
printer port trying to use IRQ 7. If you either reconfigure the soundblaster
or tell parport to use polling it should work.

I guess it would be handy if parport warned you about this sort of thing
slightly more explicitly.

p.

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