Re: 2.1.10[56] parallel port problems

Derrik (dpates@kalifornia.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:51:05 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Henrik Storner wrote:

> In 2.1.105 and .106, printing is essentially broken for me. It seems
> as if "flow control" does not work - the print-outs I get have missing
> lines, garbled data and look just plain awful. Oddly, there seems to
> be no errors, warnings or other messages logged anywhere - as far as
> Linux and lpd are concerned, everything looks fine and dandy.

> Log messages when the module loads:
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
> parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).

Have you tried adding the irq= option to the options string for the
parport_pc driver? Tell it the IRQ, then try again. It may work. (Of
course it may not - no warranties here. :)

Derrik Pates
dpates@kalifornia.com
dpates@acm.org

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