Re: Solution to printing problem (dumb mistake)

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:00:13 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Luca Montecchiani wrote:

> As you see, parport came out with some messages (*), in this
> situation we can show some bad warning and maybe don't
> load parport1....
>
> (*) 0x278: CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
> 0x278: DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff

We can give a warning if you like, but we have no choice but to believe
the user. When no peripheral is attached, the most reliable register is
CTR, but there's no _need_ for it to be readable and I don't think all
chipsets allow reads from it. On those machines, the automatic probing
will fail.

Tim.
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