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Re: Believe it or not



On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >[sad story about X completely hosed when doing e2fsck on a parallel
> >port zip drive]
> > Could someone imagine a reason for that behaviour.  Oh, yes, for
> > the sake of interest, the kernel is 2.2.4.
> What's your video card?
Matrox Millenium II.

> does it generate interrupts?
How to check that?

> Do you use ECP or
> EPP
> or just the plain normal parallel port?
I havn't installed additional patches.  I thought, 2.2 kernels have
EPP included, havn't they?
 
> If you use the parallel port in polling mode and it shares the IRQ with
> the
> grahpics board, that *could* be a reason.
How to check that or better how to avoid that?

Kind regards

         Andreas.


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