On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 13:58, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Thanks. Is there a more comprehensive doc on update-modules and > /etc/modutils? I.e., which file to I put the options in? The > update-modules man page is pretty skimpy. > > Also: > - why wouldn't the kernel be picking up from the hardware that it is > to use IRQ7? It seems to be able to speak to the EPSON even in polling > mode... > - must I alias the lp module to /dev/lp0? The old HOWTO at > linuxprinting.org doesn't know whether aliasing lp to /dev/lp0 is > only for devfs or not. boy, all good questions, I'm afraid I'm a little light on answers, though. What I can tell you about update-modules is that basically what it does is cat all the files under /etc/modutils (checking inside directories with the appropriate architecture name) to /etc/modules.conf and then run modprobe -a. It is just a shell script so fire up your favorite editor for more details. On my system, I am not passing any options to parport I have the following lines related to parallel printing in my /etc/modules.conf alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias /dev/printers* lp alias /dev/lp* /dev/printers I imagine that you have the alias lines as well unless you manually removed them. that's all I know, really. I have not had to make any changes to get my parallel port working. -Mark
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