Re: ParPort problem ?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 03:06:35 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jason Saggers wrote:

> I am running kernel 2.1.88 and have both a Parrellel ZIP Drive and a
> parralel printer hooked up.
>
> The ZIP drive work fine (if not faster than before), but when printing to
> the printer it prints (text) about 3 lines, pausess for about 5 - 8
> minutes and then prints another 3 lines and so on.

The parport_pc driver has probably misdetected your IRQ... Try specifying
it on the boot, or module-insertion line.

Strangely enough, 2.1.83 (I think) actually fixed irq detection for me..

MAtthew.

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