Re: [PARPORT] Re: lpr problems in 2.0->2.1?


Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:47:25 +0100 (CET)


On 10 Feb 1998, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

>What does help, is specifying the IRQ to be either -2 (turn off
>autoprobing) or 7 (specifying it).

Yes the bug is more obviously than I suspect ;-).

>parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 8 [SPP,ECPPS2]
>parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 600
>lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

This logs show that you was using a completly wrong irq. You only need to
workaround in order to see irq 7 or lp polled in that lines.

>I applied the ECP patch by Tim Waugh, and it now works without
>parameters (dmesg:
>
>parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,ECPPS2]
>parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 600
>lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
>)

Very well.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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