>
> To recap, the system hangs completely when you load the ppa module.
Right
>
> Are you using any special parport/ppa parameters? Is this an SMP or a
> uniprocessor machine? Come to that, which architecture is it?
>
I have the same problem in two different machines but they both are UP.
However, my kernel configuration has SMP support enabled.
My modules.conf file is:
alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> Are there any messages displayed to the console when the hang happens?
> If you could scatter some printks around (KERN_CRIT so they show up on
> the console) to figure out the example point at which it's hanging,
> that would be great.
I stop klogd and syslogd services (that causes to display all kernel
messages on screen, doesn't it? and, when I load the ppa modules, the
machine simply hangs: no messages, no sysreq key anymore.
Bye!
Juan.
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