On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 17:50 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
> A guy brought me an HP elite 8300 desktop machine that he 
> was having trouble getting working with a stepper controller.
> After trying a few things with no result, I put a scope on 
> the parallel port.  What I see is a pulse every 33 ms on pin 
> 1, which is the old parport data strobe.  I shut down all 
> modules such as lp, parport, parport_pc and ppdev, and it is 
> still doing it.  So, some BIOS code or kernel module seems 
> to be talking to the parallel port card.  That is a PCIe 
> Netmos 9900 chip, which I've used on a bunch of Dell boxes 
> with no trouble.
> 
> Does anybody have any idea what module might be doing this?  
> (and, how to turn it off)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 



have you tried to turn off acpi support in the bios ?



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