Sorry for the long message, I was afraid if I snipped, it would of course be
the source of the problem. I tried turning the printer off and back on but
got no improvement. I included some additional information in hopes that it
might help.
david:/proc/parport/0 # lpr /home/dbron/.xinitrc
david:/proc/parport/0 # lpc status
Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect
Status/(Debug)
lp@david enabled enabled 1 9918 9919
david:/proc/parport/0 # cat /proc/parport/0/hardware
base: 0x378
irq: none
dma: none
modes: SPP,PS2,EPP
david:/proc/parport/0 # cat /proc/parport/0/hardware > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: Device or resource busy
david:/proc/parport/0 # dmesg
Linux version 2.2.14 (root@david) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)) #6 Sun Jun 4 21:41:36 EDT 2000
Detected 267277925 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS
Memory: 257996k/262144k available (900k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2796k
data, 40k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2d0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
es1371: version v0.19 time 21:43:12 Jun 4 2000
es1371: found adapter at io 0xe400 irq 10
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3
es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 91366U4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LTN301, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: Memorex CRW-1622, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 91366U4, 12949MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63, UDMA
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 05 70 04 eb
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 tag=$Name:
build-476 $
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
ppuser: User-space parallel port driver
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 544 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-eth0: up
bridge-eth0: attached
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 558 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 567 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 557 (vmware)
bridge-eth0: set IFF_PROMISC
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
bridge-eth0: clear IFF_PROMISC
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 557 (vmware)
bridge-eth0: set IFF_PROMISC
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
david:/proc/parport/0 #
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: David Bronson <dbron@roman.net>
Cc: <linux-parport@torque.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [PARPORT] printer
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