Re: Parallel printing stopped working

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:34:03PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Hello,
>  I use an old LaserJet HP 4L plugged on the parallel port that was
> functioning perfectly. 
> 
> If I upgrade the kernel above 2.6.11 (I'm using the debian package
> linux-image amd64-k8), printing does not work anymore.
> 
[..]
> tombouctou:/var/log# dmesg | grep parport
> pnp: the driver 'parport_pc' has been registered
> pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:08' and the driver 'parport_pc'
> parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
> [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
> parport0: Legacy device
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
 
Works here;

[11:19am] hamish@noddy:~> dmesg | grep parport
pnp: the driver 'parport_pc' has been registered
pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:0a' and the driver 'parport_pc'
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5L

(Not even sure how it worked out that last line. Cool.)

[11:20am] hamish@noddy:~> uname -a
Linux noddy 2.6.14-1-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 2 20:53:55 CET 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is with a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra939 (nForce3).

Perhaps you can change the EPP/ECP/etc mode in the BIOS?
None of those are mentioned in my dmesg output.

Hamish
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