At 12:28 PM 12/22/99 -0500, Brian R. Thacker wrote:
>I know this is off-topic for the list but I haven't got an answer from the
>VMware-list that has been helpful for me. Is anybody using the bi-directional
>parallel port in VMware on LM6.1? I installed the latest vesion, it
>detects the
>parport0, but when I boot LM6.1 I get the message during the VM modules that
>parport0 was detected at IRQ 7; and then it tells me to enable it with procfs.
>When I look at parport0 in /proc/ it saya irq=none. How can I change this to 7
>and make the change stay through subsequent reboot so VMware will see the
>parport? Thanks for your time!
Try this:
echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
i think you have to do this before you start up vmware...
