On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:34:38 -0700 generic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > does anyone know how to turn off isapnp from scanning for PnP devices? > According to the boot message on my laptop (Dell Lattitude C800), the > standard floppy resource is being taken: > > ... > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe2d0 > PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:e2f4, dseg at 40 > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x800-0x880 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x860-0x880 > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x880-0x8c0 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x8c0-0x900 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x600-0x680 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x680-0x700 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x3f0-0x3f2 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x900-0x910 ok > PnPBIOS: PNP0c01: request 0x910-0x920 ok > PnP: 14 devices detected total > ... > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use > ... > > I verified by doing a 'cat /proc/ioports' : > > ... > 01f0-01f7 : ide0 > 03c0-03df : vga+ > 03f0-03f1 : PNP0700 > 03f6-03f6 : ide0 > 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) > 0600-067f : PNP0700 > 0680-06ff : PNP0700 > 0800-087f : PNP0700 > 0880-08bf : PNP0700 > 08c0-08ff : PNP0700 > 0900-090f : PNP0700 > 0910-091f : PNP0700 > 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 > ... > > As you can see, there's lot's of PNP resources being allocated, but > I don't have any PnP devices. So my question is, how do I reclaim these > ioport addresses for devices that I do actually have, like the standard > floppy drive? This is weird, as Mandrake 8.0 definitely didn't clobber > my floppy with this PnP crap. > At the boot screen press F1 and at the boot prompt enter: linux noisapnp If your system now completes the boot without problem you can append lilo with the same noisapmp so that it will be done auto at each boot. Charles (-:
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