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Old 03-31-2005, 01:16 AM   #1
longnam
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irq is busy or being used


hi all,

I am having a problem with my printer parallel port. After I installed slack 10.1. I can't seem to get my printer parallel port working. And when I typed command : modprobe parpart_pc

The error message is saying that " IRQ is busy or being used ... "

how can i reset my irq for the parallel port ??

any help would be apperciated !..
 
Old 04-01-2005, 10:07 AM   #2
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Automatic bump, I see. Well, if you didn't fix it yet -

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how can i reset my irq for the parallel port ??
well, you don't really 'reset' your irq. First thing I'd check is the IRQ being assigned
to your parallel port in the motherboard bios (aka cmos - what ever you want to call it).

Generally speaking, your parallel port should be set to IRQ 7- and nothing else
should be on IRQ 7.

OR, in /proc, I have a 'interrupts', if you do, you can:
cat /proc/interrupts
and see if any other device is sharing the irq with the parallel port.

Anyway, thats where I would start.
-tw
 
  


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