Re: ParPort problem ?

Trond Eivind =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Glomsr=F8d?= (teg@pvv.ntnu.no)
11 Mar 1998 10:57:13 +0100


Jason Saggers <psyclone@darknight.gen.nz> writes:

> The ZIP drive work fine (if not faster than before), but when printing to
> the printer it prints (text) about 3 lines, pausess for about 5 - 8
> minutes and then prints another 3 lines and so on.

I had a similar problem... the solution was to specify exactly what
port and io to use. I use this in /etc/conf.modules:

options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7

The reason was a bug in the parport code. I received a small patch
which fixed it, but I'm not sure it has made it into the main tree yet.

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
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