[ltp] Thinkpad 600x and printing?

[Markus Alt]

Boyan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> first attempt to get the printer working failed (in win98 works). Printer
> is HP Laser-jet 6MP distro is suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.0. I basically repeat
> the procedure with the desktop (there I have the same configuration and
> printer is working).  With the configuration tool yast2 I choose integrate
> hardware, printer type is parallel printer,and it finds the exact driver
> for this printer model. However the print fails. Yast2 complains that:
> 
> "I have not fount any parallel devices (/dev/lp?)! It seems that your
> parallel port is not properly configured."
> 
> I thought it was for it is enabled in bios in win98 and works there. For
> the moment I cannot also use the thinkpad utilities (still not managed to
> install them properly).
> Any idea how to get around this problem would be greatly appreciated.

By default, SuSE creates the following line in /etc/modules.conf:

  options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none

By default, your 600X uses I/O address 0x3bc for the parallel port.

To fix this mismatch, you could either change the entry in
/etc/modules.conf or assign a different I/O address to the parallel port
using PS2.EXE, ThinkPad Utilities or tpctl. (Although in the latter case
this will not survice a reboot, I guess.)

Markus

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Markus Alt
IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
altmark@de.ibm.com

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