[somehow I can't find the original mail so I reply to this one]

In article <22524.880567010@dnaunix.pa.dec.com>,
	"Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> writes:
>> My system running a GENERIC 1.3ALPHA kernel crashs whenever I try to
>> write to /dev/lpt0. I get a black screen and the system boots.
>> 
>> This behaviour was introduced between Nov 1. and Nov 15.
>> 
>> Is there anyone else with this problem?

I had this problem when I by mistake used IRQ 7 for "lpt0" and "sb0"
(Soundblaster) at the same time. After changing the IRQ for "sb0"
to 5 everything worked fine again.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/