Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:10:12 -0600 (CST) | From | Ognen Duzlevski <> | Subject | parport question |
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Hi,
I have sent this question to the people listed in the parport kernel directory (the maintainers) but have yet not received a reply and I am not sure if this is exactly a linux-kernel question.
I have a printer that worked fine under linux (redhat/lexmark 3200) for a long time, then I switched over to 2.4.18 and debian and it stopped working. I compiled the parport support into the kernel, I did that with 2.4.19, I did it also as modules, I tried 2.5.45, still won't work, not even a cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
The dmesg shows that the printer is recognized correctly:
Nov 9 13:06:32 gemelli kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] Nov 9 13:06:32 gemelli kernel: parport0: irq 5 detected Nov 9 13:06:34 gemelli kernel: parport0: Printer, Lexmark Lexmark 3200 lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready
The BIOS has a ton of settings such as "auto" or "normal" - I have tried them all, tried forcing the DMA / IRQ from the BIOS and then feeding these values to parport_pc, still won't work. I have tried all combinations of Normal, ECP, ECP+EPP or EPP solely, won't work.
I then installed vmware and windows nt as a guest OS, under the same kernels. I set up parport0 to be used by vmware and, it prints from Windows nt (so I know the printer is fully functional).
Any ideas, help would be appreciated. Sorry if this is not the place to post the question but I have tried google, linux-printing.org, usenet to no avail.
CHeers, Ognen
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