no lp devices found?!

[Eric J. Hansen]

Jim,

> Check that you have these:
> 
>    $ ls -l /dev/par*
>    crw-r-----   1 root     daemon     6,   0 Jul 17  1994 /dev/par0
>    crw-r-----   1 root     daemon     6,   1 Jul 17  1994 /dev/par1
>    crw-r-----   1 root     daemon     6,   2 Jul 17  1994 /dev/par2
> 
> Check your boot messages, to see whether the lp device started OK.
> (Use shift-pgup if it has scrolled off the screen, or else
> "dmesg >foobar; less foobar".)
> 
> I think lp should also appear in /proc/devices.

yes, all that stuff seems to be in order.  Any idea what IRQ LPT1 usually
uses?

Thanks,
Eric

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