Re: kern/16767 [PATCH] (A.K.A. Re: Geek Port crash)

2000-05-05 Thread Nick Hibma
You seem to have put in some hard work there. Yes, your analysis is correct. the problem has been corrected not so long ago, albeit in a slightly different way. As it is now the ppi bus does not attach if the bus is polled mode. But you are saying it works in polled mode as well. I've attached

Re: kern/16767 (A.K.A. Re: Geek Port crash)

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Nowlin
> ...with the enclosed patches, the geek port once again works, but I really DUH! Sent the wrong patch file! Change the following line: > + if (!ppi->intr_resource) { to: > + if (ppi->intr_resource) { (stupid little single-char mistake) mike To Unsubscribe:

kern/16767 (A.K.A. Re: Geek Port crash)

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Nowlin
Lots of crashes, lots of fsck's, and lots of swearing resulted in the following: Opening /dev/ppi* in 4.0 (After Jan 14) causes a panic when the system tries to allocate what appears to be IRQ 0 to the parallel port... I know little about the interrupt handling, so I went after this with the "b

Geek Port crash

2000-04-15 Thread Mike Nowlin
Bringing back a problem discussed earlier that I couldn't find a resolution on, I'm having problems with the ppi interface blowing up the system (CVSup'd to 4.0-CURRENT somewhere around April 3). (I just want my dumb little 8-bit LED array to blink on and off and show no useful information! :) )