Nope, I can't hate someone who gives good advice! Page 354 was what I should have read. And, you were right. Don't add the irq settings. Further, my parport initialization was wrong. Now, I got the printer working ok IF I load KLPQ as root in in xterm and turn on printing. Adding rw to /dev/lp* didn't work. Putting my self in the lp group, even as an admin didn't work. I'm missing something. I saw that /dev/printer ---> /var/run/printer which has the following permissions: srw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 7 22:39 printer What's this about? JLK On Wednesday 07 March 2001 20:40, you wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 21:22, Jerry Kreps wrote:
my printer won't print!!! I have two parallel cards, with the zip drive hooked to the second . THe problem is that the IRQs for the printers 5 and 7 are taken, and none are left over for the printer. The zip drive takes 5 and the OSS driver assigned 7 to 'soundblaster'. I tried the assignment parport_pc io=0x378 irq=6 but the printer doesn't respond. I'm going to try moving soundblaster to 8. Anyone think of a reason why it won't work? JLK
Y're gonna hate me for this, but did you read the friendly manual? I read the stuff last night in a futile attempt to get cups working. I currently have a printer and network card "sharing" irq 7. I have this for the last few lines of my /etc/modules.conf:
_________________________________________ alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none # If you have multiple parallel ports, specify them this way: # options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,none
# end of i386 part for modules.conf
# copied entries from old installation
# alias eth0 3c509 # alias eth1 3c509 # alias usb-hostadapter usb-uhci
# copied entries from old installation
alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 3c509 alias usb-hostadapter usb-uhci heimdall:/etc/init.d # ___________________________ The book says you don't really need to use the irq for printing. Try their suggestions for printing directly to the printer using echo. pg 352
HTH,
Steve