[techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

[Norma]

> OK, you need to add the following line to your /etc/conf.modules file:
>
> alias block-major-8 ppa

Okay for some reason this did not work. I have below listed the contents of
my /etc/conf.modules file and also the bootup messages.

alias sound es1370
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias block-major-8 ppa


(after typing dmesg)

Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT
1999
Detected 233229442 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62780k/65536k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 992k
data, 64k init)
DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfafb0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SV0844A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ICD-3600AT, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: SAMSUNG SV0844A, 8063MB w/220kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
   pII_mmx   :   329.946 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   394.716 MB/sec
   8regs     :   243.840 MB/sec
   32regs    :   181.356 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (394.716 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 64220k swap-space (priority -1)
es1370: version v0.24 time 10:27:11 Sep 27 1999
es1370: found adapter at io 0x6200 irq 11
es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C
parport1: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp1: using parport1 (polling).



note: what's on my second parallel port ad a Microtek Scanmaker E3 Plus
(which doesn't seem to work also). Thanks for the help :)

             Norma
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