OK, thanks Jeff. I was off list for a while, so I missed those earlier discussions. I'll check them out, and see if I can get it sorted.
Neil On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jeff Epler <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, the parport stuff has changed between emc2.3 and emc2.4 and there > are also differences between an 8.04 installation and a 10.04 > installation. > > In emc 2.3 and earlier, emc's parport drivers would not cooperate with > the linux parport drivers, so the linux driver was disabled by default. > > In emc 2.4, emc gained the ability to cooperate with linux's parport > driver. The anticipated benefit was primarily to make it easy to > specify pci parports, because you can call them parport 1, 2 and so on > instead of 0xe800 or a raw port address. so systems that are initially > installed with 2.4 leave linux parports enabled ny default (but 2.3 to > 2.4 upgrades don't, I think) > > > We also hoped for better detection of epp-supporting parports, but this > has proven to be untrue. See the long "d510mo" threads for more on > this. the "mode 4" message is related to this--linux thinks your port > is not epp-capable. > > in the latest release, 2.4.5, I think the problems working in > cooperation with linux are solved, but if not, your final option is to > disable theb linux parport driver by editing the file > /etc/modprobe.d/emc2 or emc2.conf and removing a #. reboot after doing > this, and linux will get out of the way of emc's use of the parport. > (of this does turn out to be necessary, let us know--we may be able to > find a solution, like we did for d510mo) > > Jeff > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- http://www.pixpopuli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
