Re: vmware with parport device in bidirectional mode

[Crispin Wellington <crispin@aeonline.net>]

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:40, Arno Baier wrote:
> hi
> i 've probs get the parport device work with vmware 3.0 and 3.1.
> i switched the paralell device in the bios to epp mode and compiled the 
> modules parport and parport_pc. i do not use a printer on lp, so i did not 
> compile lp support into the kernel. /dev/parport0 exists.
> if i configure vmware to use /dev/parport0 in bidirectional mode a message 
> "Connot open /dev/parport0: No such device". modules parport and parport_pc 
> are loaded.
> i saw that the device /dev/partport0 has root,root so only root can use this 
> device. is it possible to make it as lp wich has root,lp rights?

What about /dev/par0?

Kind Regards
Crispin Wellington



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