I upgraded to EMC 2.4.6, and it no longer complains about the parallel port. Haven't been able to test any further yet, but I think if it gets this far, it should work OK.
Neil On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Neil Baylis <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, thanks Jeff. I was off list for a while, so I missed those earlier > discussions. I'll check them out, and see if I can get it sorted. > > Neil > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jeff Epler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, the parport stuff has changed between emc2.3 and emc2.4 and there >> are also differences between an 8.04 installation and a 10.04 >> installation. >> >> In emc 2.3 and earlier, emc's parport drivers would not cooperate with >> the linux parport drivers, so the linux driver was disabled by default. >> >> In emc 2.4, emc gained the ability to cooperate with linux's parport >> driver. The anticipated benefit was primarily to make it easy to >> specify pci parports, because you can call them parport 1, 2 and so on >> instead of 0xe800 or a raw port address. so systems that are initially >> installed with 2.4 leave linux parports enabled ny default (but 2.3 to >> 2.4 upgrades don't, I think) >> >> >> We also hoped for better detection of epp-supporting parports, but this >> has proven to be untrue. See the long "d510mo" threads for more on >> this. the "mode 4" message is related to this--linux thinks your port >> is not epp-capable. >> >> in the latest release, 2.4.5, I think the problems working in >> cooperation with linux are solved, but if not, your final option is to >> disable theb linux parport driver by editing the file >> /etc/modprobe.d/emc2 or emc2.conf and removing a #. reboot after doing >> this, and linux will get out of the way of emc's use of the parport. >> (of this does turn out to be necessary, let us know--we may be able to >> find a solution, like we did for d510mo) >> >> Jeff >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > > > -- > http://www.pixpopuli.com > -- http://www.pixpopuli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
