[ltp].... Thinkpad 600x and printing?

[James Mckenzie]

Sorry for the delay, but what is the output of 'dmesg| more' where the device is
lp?

James Mckenzie

bt@wiwi.uni-bonn.de wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, James Mckenzie wrote:
>
> > Boyan:
> >
> > Did you change the default port I/O location from 03BCh to 0378h?
> >
> > Otherwise, it looks like you have a problem with the Parallel Port on your
> > computer.
> >
> Not quite sure what do you mean by default location. What I did was go in
> win98 and from Printer/settings/LPT1/Resources I changed the E/A address
> from the initial 03BC-03BF to the other options like 0378-037F and so on.
> After reboot in win98 the address was changed and it still prints meaning
> parallel port is ok in principle.
>
> It refuses in linux ,however, as I explained in my last posting.
> Boyan.
>
> >
> > bt@wiwi.uni-bonn.de wrote:
> >
> > > Missed to mention that the parport_pc and lp modules are never present
> > > after boot. They appear in lsmod output only when I force them with
> > > modprobe but again to no effect. Simply no signal or ascii text is printed
> > > and also the configuration tool yast does not see a parport.
> > >
> > > Boyan
>
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