Re: lp card not found

2020-10-24 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-23 15:56, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 16:10, ToddAndMargo via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On 2020-10-23 05:05, Roger Heflin wrote: > That pci-id that the underlying pci chip had (0xdead) is a magic > number often is used to

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 16:10, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2020-10-23 05:05, Roger Heflin wrote: > > That pci-id that the underlying pci chip had (0xdead) is a magic > > number often is used to signal something being wrong. > > I wonder if the card itself is

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-23 14:55, Roger Heflin wrote: If both cards are flooding interrupts after printing oops. Only the first card is doing the floods. The Lava card is not. It just won't print through a GUI program. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-23 14:55, Roger Heflin wrote: If both cards are flooding interrupts after printing Only the Lava card ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread Roger Heflin
If both cards are flooding interrupts after printing that would seem to indicate some sort of driver issue were it may not be handling and acking an interrupt at the end so the card keeps sending it. And yes, my experience with VIA is they seem to screw things up more often than other vendors. O

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-23 05:05, Roger Heflin wrote: That pci-id that the underlying pci chip had (0xdead) is a magic number often is used to signal something being wrong. I wonder if the card itself is bad. It uses a VIA chipset and VIA is kind-of-sort-of known for being screw ups. Anyway, I wrote the d

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-23 Thread Roger Heflin
That pci-id that the underlying pci chip had (0xdead) is a magic number often is used to signal something being wrong. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:10 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 2020-10-21 05:34, George N. White III wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:52, ToddAndMargo via users > > mai

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-21 05:34, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:52, ToddAndMargo via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On 2020-10-20 03:32, George N. White III wrote: > Does your BIOS have parallel port configuration? No You may need something to "wa

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-21 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:52, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2020-10-20 03:32, George N. White III wrote: > > Does your BIOS have parallel port configuration? > > No > You may need something to "wake-up" the VT8231 (hopefully in a way that enables the parallel

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-20 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-20 03:32, George N. White III wrote: Does your BIOS have parallel port configuration? No ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: ht

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-20 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 04:09, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2020-10-17 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 10/17/20 5:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >> On 2020-10-17 16:22, Roger Heflin wrote: > >>> you can find a "new_id" in /sys under a parport_pc direc

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-18 Thread Roger Heflin
This might also work: echo :01:00.2 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/parport_pc/bind I don't know that I (or any of us) know the exact process for adding a new_id as it is not done often. I found the original design commit and its process was echo to new_id and then echo 1 > probe_it (does not exist)

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-17 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/17/20 5:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-10-17 16:22, Roger Heflin wrote: you can find a "new_id" in /sys under a parport_pc directory and echo the id you have for this board assuming the driver can drive it (it probably can).  I am not

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/17/20 5:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-10-17 16:22, Roger Heflin wrote: you can find a "new_id" in /sys under a parport_pc directory and echo the id you have for this board assuming the driver can drive it (it probably can).  I am not sure of the format of the ID to be echo'e

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-17 14:47, George N. White III wrote: You might also try booting a Fedora Live USB to duplicate the vendor's setup. Did not work with https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/32/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso either

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 20:22, Roger Heflin wrote: > 1407:A000 is not listed in the driver. That is what the driver uses > to load and determine it can handle the device. > The "VIA VT8231" is a South Bridge with support for a bunch of "legacy" ports per: parm: init_mode:Initialise m

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-17 16:22, Roger Heflin wrote: 1407:A000 is not listed in the driver. That is what the driver uses to load and determine it can handle the device. If it is not in that list the driver believes it is not able to operate it. Vendor will change the pciid if they change the device in so

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread Roger Heflin
1407:A000 is not listed in the driver. That is what the driver uses to load and determine it can handle the device. If it is not in that list the driver believes it is not able to operate it. Vendor will change the pciid if they change the device in some way (or they can change it if the want t

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-10-17 14:47, George N. White III wrote: You might also try booting a Fedora Live USB to duplicate the vendor's setup. That is a great idea. I have been waiting on it till I see what folks had to say here first If it works, what data should I collect? _

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 17:05, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 10/17/20 12:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23, ToddAndMargo via users > > mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> > > wrote: > > > >[...] > > > You might be able to ge

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/17/20 12:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23, ToddAndMargo via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On 10/17/20 12:14 PM, George N. White III wrote: > Doesn't look like linux is supported. Hi George, I asked them about it.  Th

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 10/17/20 12:14 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > Doesn't look like linux is supported. > > Hi George, > > I asked them about it. This is what they responded > (He misspelled that last modprobe): >

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/17/20 12:14 PM, George N. White III wrote: Doesn't look like linux is supported. Hi George, I asked them about it. This is what they responded (He misspelled that last modprobe): Sorry for the delay, Linux isn't exactly my expertise, so it took a little long to verify the Parallel-P

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/17/20 12:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/17/20 5:18 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: Post a dmesg. It is 1178 lines long.  I did post it, but it got bounced. Can you give me a grep to shorten it? Does this help? (1407 from the lspci) Does "[1407:dead]" mean anything? [5.49

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 22:35, ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora32 x64 > > I just installed a > > > https://lavaports.com/serial-parallel-cards/products-pcie-bus-io-cards/parallel-pcie/ https://www.lavaports.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Operating_sy

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/17/20 5:18 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: Post a dmesg. It is 1178 lines long. I did post it, but it got bounced. Can you give me a grep to shorten it? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le.

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/17/20 11:43 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/17/20 5:18 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: > Post a dmesg. > also post a "lspci -nn" > $ lspci -nn | grep -i lava 01:00.0 Serial controller [0700]: Lava Computer mfg Inc Device [1407:dead] 01:00.2 Parallel controller [0701]: Lava Compu

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:26 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/16/20 6:35 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora32 x64 I just installed a https://lavaports.com/serial-parallel-cards/products-pcie-bus-io-cards/parallel-pcie/ CUPS tells me the priner is not attqched. I d

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Post a dmesg. In general you only very rarely need to modprobe anything, it happens automatically. also post a "lspci -nn" On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:26 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 10/16/20 6:35 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Fedora32 x64 > > > > I just instal

Re: lp card not found

2020-10-16 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/16/20 6:35 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora32 x64 I just installed a https://lavaports.com/serial-parallel-cards/products-pcie-bus-io-cards/parallel-pcie/ CUPS tells me the priner is not attqched. I did a # modprobe -r lp # modprobe -r parport_pc # modprobe parport