Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 16:37 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > ... snip > >> I have seen several messages by people in the >> last year or so that couldn't >> get them to work. I don't know if those were defective boards, some >> kind of PnP enumeration >> problem or something else. >> >> Jon >> > > This reminds me, some versions of EMC2 may or may not tolerate > parport_pc or other generic printer or parallel port drivers being > loaded with EMC2's parport. "lsmod" at a command prompt will list loaded > drivers. "sudo rmmod ?driver_name?" may be needed to remove the generic > driver/s. > Yes, in the "old" days, I had to rmmod lp on certain systems, and still do to make vmWare and some of my custom (non-EMC) drivers work. Jeff Epler put together a piece of code that handles these problems for EMC2.4, so that any drivers that are holding parport resources release them for EMC use when EMC starts. So, this shouldn't be needed anymore, with newer EMC versions.
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