On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 09:38:30PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Hi group. I'm not giving up and still want to find a way to install a full > Linux system on a 486-33 notebook with a backpack CD-ROM drive. > > Done: (1) insmod paride, (2) insmod epia, (3) insmod pcd > > After "insmod pcd" it gave the message: > "pcd: pcd version 1.05s, major 46, nice 0 > "pcd0: epia 1.02, Shuttle EPIA at 0x738, mode 1 (5/3), delay 1" > "pcd: No CDrom drive found" > "/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/pcd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy" > > I have been reading in the parport mailing list and "Device or resource > busy" seems to be a common problem with backpack CD-ROM drives. So common > it seems that I'm a bit amazed that nobody has thought of a solution. > > >From correspondence with others some points came out..... > 1) 2.0.x kernels can't handle two modules controlling the same device. > 2.2.x kernels can. > 2) "Device or resource busy" means that already another module is > controlling the parallel port. > > Q1: how can you check if which module is controlling what? (the startup > messages don't give me a clue).
Type `lsmod` to see which modules are currently loaded. > Q2: how can you disable modules that you don't need? `rmmod <module>` will remove the module. You might also want to try using `modprobe` insted of `insmod`. Check if you have `lp` module loaded and if you do remove it. Jarek
