Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

From: Christian Riedel (sarek_at_nurfuerspam.de)
Date: 07/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:47:52 +0200

    Hi Hendrik,

    On 30.07.2004 15:04, Hendrik Fuß wrote:

    > are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just
    > my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just
    > disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0
    > doesn't do anything.
    >
    > Under 2.4 kernels everything works as expected.

    I had similar problems, when I switched to 2.6 ... although the modules
    are loaded printing does not work.

    As a workaround - that worked for me:

    - unload lp and parport_pc manually and reload them

    Then printing worked ...

    It seems taht 2.6 has problems with correctly recognizing the parport.
    If you look at your boot messages you will probably see, that neither
    ecp or epp is detected, but that your parport is set to polling or
    something similar although the bios setting say other.

    When I manually loaded the modules ECP was detected as it should be and
    printing worked.

    HTH

    Christian 

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