[vox-tech] parport troubles

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Sun 23 Jan 05,  4:04 PM, Ken Bloom <kabloom at ucdavis.edu> said:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:54:09 -0500
> p at dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Kernel 2.6.9 has been giving me parport woes.  My printer works on all
> > my kernels, except 2.6.9.  Under every kernel *except* for 2.6.9:
> > 
> >    * IRQ7 is assigned to parport
> >    * The printer works.
> > 
> > On the 2.6.9 kernel:
> > 
> >    * parport is not assigned an IRQ.
> >    * The printer doesn't work (duh).
> 
> Does it work on 2.6.10? (Some people weren't aware that 2.6.10 was out
> last time I mentioned it).
> 
> --Ken Bloom
 
Haven't had a chance to follow kernels much, so I didn't know about 2.6.10.

As it turns out, parport works under 2.6.10.  Since I used .config from
2.6.9, I guess it must have been a kernel bug.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Pete

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