Printers

[Brad Noyes]

>From: "Charles C. Bennett, Jr." <ccb at kukla.tiac.net>
>To: discuss at Blu.Org
>Subject: Re: Printers
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:10:54 -0400
>
> > I'm having a problem with Printers
> >  I had Rad Hat 5.1
> > I have kernel 2.2.4.
>
>Nuff said. V2.2 renumbered the printer devices and added a bit more
>rumble to the kernel configuration of parallel ports - all done to
>generalize for parallel ports on non-PC platforms.
>
>Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt for the gory
>details.
>
>ccb
>

Well i spent a substantial amount of time trying to get the printer to work, 
but no luck. I read the documentation. One section said to do a "# insmod 
parport_pc.o io='whatever ioport' irq='whatever irq'. When i did that it 
said that it wasn't supported by the kernel. So i recomplied the kernel, 
making sure that i had parallel printer suport. And the results were the 
same. I noticed that the irq 7, which is usually that 1st printer, was being 
used by the soundcard. I recompiled the kernel without any sound support 
what so ever. I looked in /proc/interrupts, and it said that soundblaster 
was at irq 7. I did logout and login,
Why is irq 7 being taken up by the sound card if i compiled the kernel 
without any sound support?

After that attempt i tried using Kmod. So i compiled the kernel with kmod 
support. It said to edit conf.modules, and add 'alais partport_lowlevel 
parport_pc options parport_pc io='whatever ioport' irq='whatever irq'. 
Logged out, logged in, and nothing happened.
Was I supposed to exececute a comand after editing that file for the changes 
to take effect?

I'm new at kernels and new at configuring printers, which is probably not a 
good combination in this situation. Are there any suggestions about this? 
Have people successfully configured a printer with kernel 2.2.x? I'm trying 
to use an HP deskjet if that means anything.

Thanks
   -Brad Noyes


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