[RndTbl] parallel port

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Sat Jan 10 23:50:10 CST 2015


On 2015-01-10 Adam Thompson wrote:
> Maybe try specifying the IRQ manually, per
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/parport.txt ? I haven't used
> a real parallel port under Linux since 2.2, so beyond that, no idea.

Yup, that's like the only useful doc on the net, and I tried everything
in there.  The IRQ that is autoassigned is correct, and the port works,
it's the lack of DMA that seems to be killing me.

I guess I'm the lucky owner of a buggy board (Intel!!!) or kernel... or
both, as far as parport is concerned.


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