On Wednesday 22 October 2003 22:22, Thorsten Greiner wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a VIA EPIA-M 10000 board which works mostly when I disable > ACPI in the bios. Unfortunately the parallel port is controlled by > some Super-IO chip and is not recognized during boot. The same holds > true for serial ports and the floppy controller. > > When I enable ACPI in the bios the machine boots normally and > recognizes the parallel port BUT stops after displaying the hd/cdrom > identification , at the point where it would normally start init > (before the "Mounting root from ..." is displayed). > > At this point it just stops. I can break into DDB but nothing > else... Sorry, I can't help you but I'd like to confirm this. Since I don't need the ParPort my workarround was to disable the ParPort in the BIOS. Then I had no problems with ACPI. -Harry > > This machine is running a custom kernel based on GENERIC with > several device drivers removed and debugging stuff disabled (DDB is > still there), cvsupped Oct 17. There are no ACPI error messages > displayed during the boot process. > > I will happily provide more information on request. Please help me > to get this parallel port going as I want to hook up my printer > there. Thanks! > > Regards > -Thorsten
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