On 8/25/2011 4:59 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello, gentlemen! > > I am having difficulties with getting Mesa 7i43 card working on D510 board. > > I have set parport to EPP in BIOS. I have checked it at least 4 times. > But dmesg shows: > [ 8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] > > I reinstalled Lucid this morning, but that did not bring any improvement. > > Does anyone have any idea, what else can I do? > Update BIOS? > > Viesturs > Viesturs:
The D510 BIOS is broken and I don't think it will ever be fixed (see this list ca. October 2010). The user-entry portion of the BIOS lets you enter various parallel port modes but it doesn't carry through with setting the proper ACPI entries (or some such; I'm a bit woozy this morning). The port itself can run in the different modes but programs that read the ACPI tables to get port settings will be misinformed. The EMC wizards have introduced a workaround to this problem. In December 2010, "Andy I" said > I can report that EMC2.4.6 release has fixed the parallel port issue on my > D510MO + MESA 7i43 system. Regards, Kent PS - the ppdiag script that Kyle found is a nifty tool for documenting what the system knows about the parallel port but it can't identify this bug in the BIOS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
