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Re: Strange Printer Problem



Indeed its a really strange problem. I dont have much knowledge in printers 
under Linux but I'll try to help:
Is there any connection to the BIOS PnP support? maybe you have to disable 
PnP in BIOS?
When doing lsmod parport and/or parport_pc load successfully? dmesg doesnt 
show errors?
Logs dont show errors? Do you think about any conflict between hardwares?
when you do insmod lp do you get any errors?

Look on www.linuxprinting.org printer driver database and look for your 
printer. There are a few .upp files for your printer, maybe you'll find 
useful information.

Look on http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/kernel.html maybe you'll find 
useful information.
Hope this helped.

At 08:05 02/10/01 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi and happy sukkoth everyone,
>
>I'm having a strange printer problem. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740
>which works perfectly on Windows but on Linux I cannot get it to print.
>
>Now, the lp, parport and parport_pc modules are loaded, but I cannot seem
>to print anything by catting a text file (or a postscript file) to the
>printer. The permission on /dev/lp1 are:
>
>crw-rw-rw-    1 root     lp         6,   1 Aug 30 12:54 /dev/lp1
>
>And the relevant files from /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport1 are:
>
>/autoprobe
>------
>
>
>
>/autoprobe0
>------
>
>
>
>/autoprobe1
>------
>
>
>
>/autoprobe2
>------
>
>
>
>/autoprobe3
>------
>
>
>
>/base-addr
>------
>
>888     1912
>
>
>/devices/active
>------
>
>none
>
>
>/devices/lp/timeslice
>------
>
>200
>
>
>/dma
>------
>
>3
>
>
>/irq
>------
>
>7
>
>
>/modes
>------
>
>PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA
>
>
>/spintime
>------
>
>500
>
>
>What can I do to make everything allright?
>
>Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Shlomi Fish        shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
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>
>A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes
>what went wrong more quickly.
>
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