Some weird printer problems

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:33:21 PDT 2004


Can you plug the printer into a different box to verify that it works?

David Aikema wrote:
> On June 14, 2002 09:22 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Clarify something, did this ever work?  
> 
> 
> Yup.  It was working just fine until a couple of days ago.
> 
> 
>>What appears in messages if you
>>load the lp module manually?
> 
> 
> modprobe lp loaded the module without generating any sort of error message.  
> Here's the relevant output in /var/log/messages
> 
> ---
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: FIFO is 16 bytes
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: writeIntrThreshold is 16
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: readIntrThreshold is 16
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: PWord is 8 bits
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x40
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other 
> mean
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc (0x7bc) 
> [PCSPP,TRISTAT
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
> Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
> Jun 14 22:36:00 david kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> ---
> 
> David Aikema
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