Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2.5 parallel port driver locks up the kernel | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:30:09 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>The kernel locked up at boot. I could not even use the alt-sysrq key. I used > printks to debug it further, and isolate the problem. > Kernel 2.2.5 crashed right after the "printk ("5 " message in > probe_one_port in parport_pc.c in the drivers/misc directory. It had been >called from parport_pc_init using 0x378, irq[0], dma[0]. My printer port >hardware uses 0x378. It is an older card, perhaps even of the XT era.
It sounds as if the probe for EPP and/or ECP is upsetting something else in your system. You might be able to discourage this by putting something like `reserve=0x37b,5 reserve=0x778,8' on your kernel command line.
p.
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