Re: Parallel port on Dell Latitude

From: billy ball (bball@staffnet.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 13:53:22 EST


On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jim Roland wrote:

> Okay. I combined Adrian's and Billy's info, and it works. Strange. In
> kernel 2.2.14 Ihad to install as a module, even though I told menuconfig
> that I wanted it as a non-module. There are not any docs that I could see
> to tell me this (not in parport.txt nor lp.c), but the same thing happened
> with my sound card. It had options for module or no-module (compiled in as
> regular kernel stuff), but the README for my sound card (Neomagic 256AV)
> said it *HAS* to be compiled as module. When I compiled the sound as
> module, it worked great. IS LP like this from now on?

no... some distros install a 'broken' /etc/conf.modules... using Red Hat?
use:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

hth

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> -=>Jim Roland
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> "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower."
> --Anonymous
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> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, billy ball wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:15:07 -0500 (EST)
> > From: billy ball <bball@staffnet.com>
> > To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net>
> > Cc: linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: Re: Parallel port on Dell Latitude
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Roland wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to configure a printer port on my Dell Latitude CPi R400 (newer
> > > P2-400s). I assume it's the standard LPT port at 0x378 and irq 7. Howver,
> > > compiling kernel 2.2.14 with parallel port support installed as with my
> > > home PC (which works), lpd and printtool do not recognize /dev/lp0 or
> > > /dev/lp1.
> > >
> > > IS there a special trick to making it work on this machine?
> >
> > perhaps:
> >
> > insmod parport
> > insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> > insmod lp
> >
> > ???
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > -=>Jim Roland
> > >
> > > "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower."
> > > --Anonymous
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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