[wellylug] Re parallel port problem

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 11:44, Paul Daniel wrote:
> 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?
> 

Physical port problems sounds right... I've never heard of a linux
system that can't use a parallel port. (all though, you can disable it
in the kernel. However, that's not what's happening, as you've tried
various distros, which would have parallel port support.

I would also check the BIOS. Some motherboards (like my gigabyte) have
options in the BIOS to disable/enable the parallel port.

In testing the port, I have no ideas, sorry.



> 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.
>         
> 
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