I have the parport driver compiled into the kernel directly. Since it isn't in a
module I just use lilo to pass it the arguments. Until I found that disabling the
IRQ, I was using append="parport=0x278,5,3"
For IRQ5 and DMA3. IRQ 7 is currently used by my sound card. That works fine.
As for what kind of motherboard I have : Tyan S1570 AT
It doesn't specify the make of the parallel port chipset. All it says is that it
is a ECP/EPP Bi-Directional Hi-speed port.
The printer is an Epson Stylus COLOR 400
Your program would not compile. I don't know how to send you the exact error
messages it said because make > errors didn't work. But I narrowed it down to
when it creates the .depend file. It was about version.h and autoconf.h
There is one more interesting note about this whole thing... when I originally
installed Windows 98, I used their drivers from the disk and it did the same
thing. Then when I used the OEM drivers from Epson, it didn't do it anymore.
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Russell Lambert wrote:
>
> >But I know that with my Epson and the parport driver, it goes slow and is very
> >jumpy when I use the DMA and IRQ that Windows 98 assigns to it.
>
> I suspect the parport irq you are using is wrong (with fast printer lp as
> default sleep on the irq only one time per many many characters (probably
> when the head return to the start of the paper)). Could you try a cat
> /proc/interrupts looking for the number of irq of parportN happened?
>
> You can change the irq using `echo N >/proc/parport/X/irq`.
>
> 99% of the x86 hardware need:
>
> insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
>
> If you are sure the irq is right I' d like to know details on your
> motherboard or parallel port and on the printer. To develop a fix I need
> the report of my printer scanner (http://e-mind.com/~andrea/pscan.shtml).
>
> With your printer _online_ (with all parport drivers unloaded) you have
> simply to do:
>
> insmod ./pscan.o
>
> and send me the output of `dmesg`.
>
> Note that you have to hack by _hand_ the #defines in pscan.c to set your
> irq and IO port before compile pscan (it' s a bit crude but it works ;-).
>
> Andrea[s] Arcangeli
>
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