Re: parport in 2.3.*

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (bero@redhat.de)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:42:27 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Tim Waugh wrote:

> > Tried it with pre-2.3.32-4 today, and it works now, though, so whatever
> > the problem was, it's fixed.
>
> Strange. I haven't been changing the code much recently at all.

I know - there's actually no parport related change in 2.3.32-pre4.
I upgraded binutils 2.9.5.0.19 to 2.9.5.0.22 yesterday, maybe that did the
trick?

> > I still don't get any autoprobing info (yes, I enabled IEEE-1284,
> > and the printer supports it), though. The autoprobe* files are in
> > proc, but they're empty.
>
> What does dmesg say?

Just the usual things.... (Tried both loading parport_pc without
parameters and with io=0x378 irq=7)

parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18)
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe0
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe1
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe2
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe3
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/active
none
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/lp/timeslice
200
# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/hardware
base: 0x378 (0x778)
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP

LLaP
bero

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