"loki" == loki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree, and I've been having the same problems. Well technically a > friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem. I eventually > wondered if it was a BIOS problem, and found that the BIOS had the > parallel port set to an odd mode.. SPP or EPP is okay, but I think bi-directional modes cause problems. Setting it to a simpler value > seemed to partially solve the problem (or maybe just change the > error message ;) > I think the first thing to check is whether or not your kernel is > actually recognising the parallel port: check for an /proc/parport, > and more specifically what it says in /proc/parport/0/hardware.
Hi, you'd probably forgotten all about this thread, but no! :) Well, I finally got around to looking at this again, and found that my BIOS also had some weird parallel port modes (ECP & EPP); I changed it to 'normal'. Don't know if that was causing problems, but it probably wasn't helping. And it works fine as 'normal' under Win95. After booting Debian, in dmesg I get: geldar:~# dmesg | grep parport parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-1000 lp0: using parport0 (polling). However, there is no /proc/parport directory! After some confusion, and random 'modprobe'-ing, and many restarts of lpd, I figure it out. Printing does not work until a) I issue a 'modprobe lp', after which the /proc/parport/0/ directory appears and looks fine; b) I tell parport to use IRQ 7 for the printer, via 'echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq'. However, once I do that, it seems to print ok; the output of 'lptest' is currently using up all my ink; magicfilter seems to PostScript-ize it to 2 side-by-side pages per physical page, but that is all for the best. So to make this occur at every boot, I put 'options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7' into '/etc/modutils/arch/i386', and the line 'lp' in '/etc/modules'. Is this correct? Woohoo! I finally got printing working under linux! Something that I never managed while using RedHat, I must say. 'update-modules' rocks! And so does the debian-users list, you guys are great! =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
