[wellylug] Re parallel port problem

[Paul Daniel]

Thanks for the below and for Jethro's reply also.

I appears to me that CUPS is all present and correct but it does not now
have the option of parallel port when adding a printer. It only offers
serial USB and the various network options.  OK... now I am thinking
physical port problems.  It was always listed previously.  I just
re-installed Vidalinux 1.1 and same problem.  Any other way to verify a
parallel port problem?

Cheers
Paul Daniel

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:54:28 +1300
From: Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at gmail.com>
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Parallel port detection
Reply-To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz

The "cannot allocate resource region 4 ..." error is probably a red
herring as I also get this on my laptop every time I boot but it
doesn't cause any problems that I can tell. I assumed it's an
erroneous ACPI message. I normally print to the usb port but I just
tried my HP laserjet on the parallel port to test it and it does work.
You might want to check you have all the cupsys related packages
installed. I'm running Ubuntu with 2.6.9 kernel.