Re: Printer Problem

["Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626" <georgeacct@spininternet.com>]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I had not learned about
dmesg.  Unfortunately it reported everything in order - i.e. parport0 using
0378 and irq 7.  I must look elsewhere for the problem.

Tom George

ktb wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote:
> > My printer was working perfectly.  I rebuilt the kernel allowing 
> > autoprobe.  Printer no longer responds even to
> >
> >            cat lptest > /dev/lp0  where lptest is a small text file
> >
> > and
> >
> >            lp lptest
> >
> > responds normally but nothing is printed and nothing is in the print que.
> >
> >            cat /proc/ioports  shows the correct value (0378-037f) for 
> > parport0
> >
> >            cat /proc/parport/0/irq  reports none (should be irq 7 but is 
> > this needed?)
> >
> > Documentation/parport indicates that a lilo command parport=0x378,7 
> > should work but /sbin/lilo rejects this line placed anywhere in 
> > lilo.conf.  The documentation also implies that the irq value reported 
> > by cat/proc/parport/0/irq can be changed but I don't understand how.
> >
> > It seems to me that everything is working normally but the printer is 
> > not receiving the transmission.  The printcap file is unaltered and lp 
> > is !
> > directed to lp0.
> >
> > Where is the missing link?
>
> What does dmesg say about parport?
> kent
>
>