Re: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive.
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 09:38:30PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Hi group. I'm not giving up and still want to find a way to install a full
> Linux system on a 486-33 notebook with a backpack CD-ROM drive.
>
> Done: (1) insmod paride, (2) insmod epia, (3) insmod pcd
>
> After "insmod pcd" it gave the message:
> "pcd: pcd version 1.05s, major 46, nice 0
> "pcd0: epia 1.02, Shuttle EPIA at 0x738, mode 1 (5/3), delay 1"
> "pcd: No CDrom drive found"
> "/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/pcd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy"
>
> I have been reading in the parport mailing list and "Device or resource
> busy" seems to be a common problem with backpack CD-ROM drives. So common
> it seems that I'm a bit amazed that nobody has thought of a solution.
>
> >From correspondence with others some points came out.....
> 1) 2.0.x kernels can't handle two modules controlling the same device.
> 2.2.x kernels can.
> 2) "Device or resource busy" means that already another module is
> controlling the parallel port.
>
> Q1: how can you check if which module is controlling what? (the startup
> messages don't give me a clue).
Type `lsmod` to see which modules are currently loaded.
> Q2: how can you disable modules that you don't need?
`rmmod <module>` will remove the module.
You might also want to try using `modprobe` insted of `insmod`.
Check if you have `lp` module loaded and if you do remove it.
Jarek
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