On Sunday 20 January 2002 12:34 am, you wrote: > I only responded to the first part of your message, sorry. You normally > would not have to put your printer into /etc/modules. I believe it is > compiled into the Mandrake kernel. For example, the only thing in my > /etc/modules is scsi_hostadapter and usb-storage, and Mandrake put both > entries there for me. > > > Joe > > On Saturday 19 January 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: > > > Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I > > > don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the > > > same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port > > > through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your > > > CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at. > > > > Dear Joe, I do not think using Alsa will make the difference either. I > > changed the PNP stuff but nothing made a difference so far.I believe that > > I can change the IRQ for the printer through CMOS however according to > > all the files IRQ 7 has been used only by my printer so I am wondering if > > it is a dma conflict instead as you suggested? How would I check the DMA > > situation and how would I change it? From what I can tell there does not > > seem to be a DMA conflict either but I probably would not know how to > > tell if there was. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. > > > > By the way, do you know how I would put my printer into /etc/modules so > > that it could load? I know that the devfs is different and I am not sure > > how to correctly edit the /etc/modules file for everything. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Marcia Dear Joe and All,
Thank you Joe for your help and thank you Charles for yours as well as all others who gave suggestions. After 2 months my printer, ethernet, and sound are all working. I went into the Bios and went into the peripherals area, changed the irq and ioport of the printer. I actually changed it to irq 5 which is for my sound but it made the difference and everything works. It really does not make sense to me because the printer always used irq 7 before without a problem. I am very grateful for the help. I tried many other changes in the Bios which did not work but Joe's suggestion of changing the irq for the printer in the Bios made things work. I am thrilled. I think that it is and odd thing to have to do it but since it works I am not complaining. Thanks again, Marcia
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