On Monday 27 May 2019 01:24:13 am John Dammeyer wrote: > Thanks everyone. I booted from the LinuxCNC live DVD I created. > Once I realized that the single partition I'd reserved for Linux > needed to be turned into two partitions, one for the swap file and one > for the data disk things went smoothly. > > Now I can boot from GRUB. Select a number of different options > including WIN-XP. > > WIN-XP still runs and accesses both the parallel port at 0x378 and the > second PCI plug in card Parallel port that lists i/o at 2000 got 8 > bytes and 2008 for 8 bytes with IRQ 14 available if needed. > > Way back when I was doing this with a BeagleBone and Xylotex cape > everything went smoothly because the hardware was known. But now... > > Under Linux from DMESG: > [ 15.162377] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). > [ 15.446380] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver > > The command > john@g3616:~$ lspci -v > > has a the end the following which suggests the PCI card has been > found. > > 11:0a.0 Parallel controller: Device 1c00:2170 (rev 0f) (prog-if 01 > [BiDir]) Subsystem: Device 1c00:2170 > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at 2008 [size=8] > I/O ports at 2000 [size=8] > > I found this site. > https://forum.linuxcnc.org/forum/18-computer/18917-faq-pci-parallel-po >rt-cards > > Would I set > loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x378 out 0xd000 out 0xd008 in" > > When I run Linux with a customized hal and config file it will crash > with the window with the errors. But after that I can't even run the > stock single parallel port version without it crashing. It's like the > 0x378 port has now vanished. > It has. You will need to blacklist ppdev as its grabbing the port before LCNC can. The manpage for modprobe should explain how to blacklist it. > Suggestions? > Thanks > John > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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