>From: Peter Simons <simons@petium.rhein.de>
>Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:09:23 +0200 (MET DST)

>Matthias Scheler wrote:

> > Sounds like a missconfigured IRQ to me. I experienced the same problem
> > after I updated my BIOS and lpt0 had suddenly another IRQ.
>
>Any hints how I can find out where the parallel port lives? The BIOS
>setup shows exactly the values I have configured into the kernel, but
>some peope have already mentioned that the BIOS is usually of little
>interest. :-)

If you still have MSDOG on your system, run MSD.  It's not perfect,
but it will find most common things (like LPT[123]:).

My recommendation is: eliminate the IRQ, and see if you have better
luck with polling.
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