potato installation problem: lp driver; get "init_module: Device or resource busy" message
I'm having trouble with the current pre-release of potato. I
can't tell if this is a bug, an odd incompatibility in my system
(which works fine with slink), or something I'm doing wrong.
When I get to the step of configuring device drivers, I can't
install module lp.
When I try, I get these error messages (copied by hand, so typos
are possible):
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed
I thought there might be some requirement to configure the parport
module first, but when I configured it and then tried lp again, I
got the same messages from the installation system.
I also tried insmod from the shell on the second virtual console,
both trying lp by itself and trying parport and then lp. In all
cases, I got the "/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device
or resource busy" error.
On a previous attempt (details not written down, unfortunately), I
tried several IRQ and IO settings, but always got the error message.
I don't know of anything special or weird on my machine. (It works fine
with slink.)
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-5AX rev. 3.0.
Here's the output of dmesg from my usual slink system (I was installing
potato on a spare partition):
Memory: sized by int13 0e801h
Console: 8 point font, 480 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 132x60, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fb100
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb580
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb5b0
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 225.28 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127168k/131072k available (1124k kernel code, 384k reserved,
2396k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.38 (root@dsb) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sat Dec 4
19:46:05 EST 1999
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29
02:46:13 $
tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x278600 (0x278574)
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: ALI15X3: enabled read of IDE channels state (en/dis-abled)
Succeeded.
ide: ALI15X3 (dual FIFO) DMA Bus Mastering IDE
Controller on PCI bus 0 function 120
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
hda: Maxtor 90840D5, 8047MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1025/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: Maxtor 91024U4, 9765MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19841/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected with Tekram NVRAM
ncr53c876-0: rev=0x26, base=0xe8000000, io_port=0xe000, irq=9
ncr53c876-0: Tekram format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-0: on-chip RAM at 0xe8001000
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1e
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: Seagate Model: STT8000N Rev: 3.22
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
hdc: [PTBL] [1244/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
Serial driver version 4.13p1 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
ftape-2.08 960314
(c) 1993-1995 Bas Laarhoven (bas@vimec.nl)
(c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (khp@dolphinics.no)
(c) 1996-1997 Claus Heine (claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de)
QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020 tape drives
Compiled for kernel version 2.0.38 with versioned symbols
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
hdd: media changed
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
hdd : tray open
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40, sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:40 iso_blknum 16 block 32
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
hdd : tray open or drive not ready
SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel
registered device ppp0
Any ideas?
Thanks,
--
Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net
(Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy
http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
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