On Friday 21 June 2013 06:35:42 Gregg Eshelman did opine: > On Thu, 6/20/13, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is that on some PCI cards, the normal offset of > 0x402 > between the > data port and the ECR register are different, and the right > register address > needs to be figured out, often by trial and error. You > may be able to > figure it out from the lspci -v command, and then fool the > program by > entering an address that is, perhaps, 0x400 lower than the > suspected > config register group, so that it uses the 3rd register of > that group. > (That is 0x02 above the beginning of the group.) > (Note, poking random PCI registers can cause a system > crash.) > > Jon > > The ideal fix is editing the BIOS to fix the not setting the port > properly bug. ;-) There's a BIOS hacking and editing community that > most likely contains at least one person with the know how to do that. I have two of those D525MW boards. I had to reflash the bios straight away, but I haven't had any parport problems using the default configs for the parport in Linuxcnc since. The latest bios flash for those boards might actually fix it. YMMV of course.
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