Hallo, the device is working without problems in the dom0, found from parport_pc: dmesg small2 snip: parport_pc: ITE8875 found (1P) parport0: PC-style at 0xf000 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: Printer, Kyocera FS-1700+ parport_pc: ITE 8872 parallel port: io=0xF000 parport1: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] snap to assign this device to a domU I gave the boot-parmaters pciback.hide=(00:08.0) dmesg found the folling lines snip:: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn''t work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x500-0x50f has been reserved pciback 0000:00:08.0: seizing device snap the pci-device 00:08.0 is still found by the parport_pc modul the printer is working, I added the parport modul to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist shutdown all domUs and init 6 for dom0 afterwards dmesd small2 found snip: pciback: vpci: 0000:00:08.0: assign to virtual slot 0 snap the device-line pci=[''00:08.0''] has been added to the domU configuration-file in domU with lspci snip: 00:00.0 Serial controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8874F PCI Dual Serial Port Controller (rev 01) snap in domU modprobe parport_pc dmesg in domU parport_pc: cannot find ITE8872 INTA in domU lsmod snip: parport_pc 33092 0 parport 34120 1 parport_pc snap dmesg in dom0 snip: pciback 0000:00:08.0: Driver tried to write to a read-only configuration space field at offset 0x60, size 4. This may be harmless, but if you have problems with your device: 1) see permissive attribute in sysfs 2) report problems to the xen-devel mailing list along with details of your device obtained from lspci. snap I''m running the ctserver2 with Linux version 2.6.18-4-xen-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu May 10 03:24:35 UTC 2007 thanks so far Hans here some details - let me know if there are informations you are misssing small2:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:08.0 Serial controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8874F PCI Dual Serial Port Controller (rev 01) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01) small2:~# snip: 00:08.0 Serial controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8874F PCI Dual Serial Port Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: I/O ports at e600 [disabled] [size=256] Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256] Region 2: I/O ports at f200 [disabled] [size=256] Region 3: I/O ports at f000 [disabled] [size=256] Region 4: I/O ports at ee00 [disabled] [size=256] Region 5: I/O ports at ec00 [disabled] [size=256] 00:09.0 snap _________________________________________________________________________ In 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel