[wplug] Parport problem

[Smith, Edward]

I have the same printer and Under RedHat I had a lot of trouble getting it
to work under anythign newer than 5.1. Now I'm using the CUPS printing
system and it works great. 

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but I highly recomend grabbing the
RPMs for CUPS and installing and trying those. You can find the web site at
http://www.cups.org/

Hope this is useful.

-Ed

--
Edward C. Smith
Multimedia Programmer
Interactive Media Corp.
Butler, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim LaSalle [mailto:jjlasalle at home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:51 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] Parport problem


I am dual booting  Win98 and Red Hat Linux 7.1.  My Epson Color Stylus
740 prints fine in Windows. I get nothing from Red Hat 7.1.  The Epson
SC740 is not a WIN printer. I've fiddled with printtool and still can't
get the printer working.  The BIOS on my Asus A7V mobo has Plug 'n Play
turned off.  I get no error message when I print. Here's a snippet from
dmesg.

#####################################################
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: possible IRQ conflict!
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x00
0x378: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other means> dma=<none or set by
other means>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 740
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
#####################################################

Here's the /etc/printcap

lp|sc740:\
 :sh:\
 :ml=0:\
 :mx=0:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
 :lp=/dev/lp0:\
 :lpd_bounce=true:\
 :if=/usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper:

Nothing fancy. The printer worked fine under Red Hat  5.2 and Debian
(Woody) on an old unidentified Pentium 133 motherboard.  Any help will
be appreciated.


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