Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem
Hey-ya Paul,
How's the weather down-under? It's cold here (San Francisco).
The only two things that don't work are the sound and the parallel printer.
On the sound, the chipset is the ESS Maestro 3 which so new there are no drivers that work that are included in the distribution. However, there's a beta driver in the form of source code that I've been fiddling with, but I'm not that experiences with compiling modules so I don't have it working yet. Check it out at this url:
http://www.zabbo.net/maestro3/
On the parport_pc, I know the port works because I can plug the floppy or cdrom drive into it and access either. At least I hope that's a good indicator.
I use the standard SVGA xserver for Gnome X and it works nicely. I also have APM working quite nicely, the system suspends and resumes without trouble. I've found the power meter on gnome-panel to be fairly accurate. I've had to fiddle with the bios settings a little to tune, but that's been very receptive. I had some trouble running vmware but then realized I had compiled the kernel with symetric multi-processing turned on. I recompiled to uni-processor and that fixed it. PCMCIA services work fine, accept I've not been able to get this new Xircom RealPort Cardbus 10/100+56k Modem to work. It loads, without errors, but the IP interface doesn't work and the modem won't dial. My Intel 10/100 cards works great though and I suspect an older pcmcia modem would work too.
Let me know if you have other questions. I know a guy whose building RedHat on the same pc and he's getting it working.
jc
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:44:06PM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> > Anyone,
> >
> > I recently got the newest Dell Latitude CPx laptop and I've
> > installed it with stable 2.2.18. I've got about everything worked out
> > but the sound and the parallel printer port. I need help with the
> > parport. It won't work. Here's everything I can think of to help:
>
> Did you manage to try out the irDA? I would like to know about how
> you went, and any suggestions you might have, or things that you think
> other people might find helpful about the Latitude CPx's.
>
> See:
> http://www.foursticks.com.au/~pschulz/dell-latitude-cpx
>
> It's fairly 'solutionless' at the moment, but hopefully that will
> change. (Unless I suddenly find that there already is a similar site
> somewhere..)
>
> Please let me know hoe you get on... (I can see that you're getting
> lots of suggestions).
>
> Paul
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> > - parport and parport_pc support are compiled into the kernel as modules
> > - parallel printer is compiled as well with printer readback turned on.
> > - modprobe shows the following:
> >
> > root-bash# modprobe -d parport
> > =============================================
> > Module parport
> > kname parport
> > objkey parport
> > names: parport
> > mode: NORMAL
> > Module matching parport: /lib/modules/2.2.18-3/misc/parport.o
> > =============================================
> >
> > - syslog has this to say:
> >
> > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
> > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport_probe: failed
> > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> >
> > * I think that printer readback is the 1284 thing.
> >
> > any help is appreciated...jc
> >
> >
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