[wplug] Parport problem

[Matthew & Marietta Wright]

I would have to agree.  CUPS is big but I have never had it NOT work.

At 10:04 AM 7/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>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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