Re: lp0 on fire - escputil anyone?
Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> said on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:26:35 +0200:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 18:37, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> said on Tue, 27 Apr 2004
> 17:12:09 +0200:
> [...]
> > > Back in command line, everything except ink level seems to work.
> > > 'escputil -i' says it needs a raw device, and 'escputil -i -r
> > > /dev/lp0' says 'Cannot read from /dev/lp0: Invalid argument' --
> > > same as GUI.
> [...]
> > You need to set up bidirectional communication on your parallel port
> > - I think it is a kernel compile option (my old crappy bios also has
> > several options on the parallel port question, one of which is the
> > bidirectional option -- try those).
>
> I hadn't thought of the bios. I'll look tomorrow. Thanks
I don't promise anyhting - Linux usually ignores the BIOS (but maybe
the BIOS sets up the ports, and Linux wont reset them later, using the
defaults).
Now that I look closer, I don't see anything in my config (such as
options in my modutils directory) that would be setting bidirectional
communication...
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