[wellylug] Parallel port detection

[Jethro Carr]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 10:30, Paul Daniel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Mepis (Debian 3.0 testing tarted up a little) and get the
> following error early in boot sequence  Cannot allocate resource region
> 4 of device xxxx00:02.1

If you have a winmodem, that error sometimes occurs, as the system can't
comunicate with the device properly.


> I am wondering if this is related to my recent inability to get any of
> the distros I have been using to recognise the existence of my Epson
> stylus colour 600 printer on parallel port 1 (lp0).
> Should an lspci show up my parallel port?  Could this be the result of a
> recent power cut/surge.  The printer is still detecting the PC shutting
> down and starting up.
> Kernel is 2.6.8 I think.
> 
> Cheers
> Paul D
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