:hope everyone doesn't mind most of the posts being by me. Anyway, I
:am trying to get printing going, which I have done before, and I can
:not seem to get basic output to go out the parallel port. I checked
:my kernel configuration, and I realized that I did not have parallel
:support compiled into the kernel. I checked the parallel support (directly
:compiled in, not as a module) and I recompiled. Here is the output of
Do you see the port being detected on bootup? Here is a section of my
messages file. The parport lines didn't appear for me until I added...
append = "parport=0x378,7" to my lilo.conf.
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with SHARE_IRQ enabled
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
12:04:04 morpheus kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
I hope this info can help. Also, forgive me for asking a basic question
like this, but are you sure that lpd is running? :)
Rick
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