On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:45:43PM +0200, Linus G Larsson wrote:
> I know this is a pretty newbie question, but I wonder if there is any
> difference between /dev/lp0 | /dev/par0 and /dev/parport0?
Yes, there is. /dev/lp0 is the first parallel port printer. I'm not
sure why /dev/par0 but on my system seems to be the same as /dev/lp0.
/dev/parport0 is a new device (new in Linux 2.4) which represents the
first parallel port (or a device attached to it).
> If there is, which major and minor should I use to create the device
> /dev/parport0?
Major 99. The minor number specifies which port: 0 for the first, 1
for the second, etc.
> My kernel finds the parallel port, but I've only got the devices
> /dev/lp[0-2] and /dev/par[0-2]. I want VMWare to get hold of the
> parallel port and it needs some other device than the ones I've got
> for bidirectional communication.
VMware ships a very old version of a driver for /dev/parport0, called
(vm)ppuser. Perhaps you need to compile/install that.
[The new driver is called ppdev, and unfortunately has a different
interface but the same major. :-( Perhaps one of the guys at VMware
would like to take the ppdev 2.2.x backport I made and add their
PPGETBASE hacks to that, to prevent this incompatibility getting
worse: any VMware guys on this list?]
Tim.
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