hello list, searching information that could help me solve the problem of my old HP laserjet 1100 printing too slow, i found something about dma and parallel port.
i activated ECP on the bios, the address of the port is 378, irq 7 and dma 3. but dma is not activated when booting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | grep parp Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 ro parport=0x378,7,3 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/dma -1 i have the drivers compiled in the kernel, not as modules. i added this line in menu.lst: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 ro parport=0x378,7,3 not sure about the syntax, i couldn't find anything in the grub documentation about passing kernel parameters. anyway, i get no dma on parport0. i have an oldish soyo kt333 motherboard, and i tried this with different recent kernels (2.6.23 and 24) any help greatly appreciated. best, lj -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
