Thanks for any help! I solved the problem. I installed the kernel of slackware9.1 2.4.22 and my good old Epson LX-800 came to live. This is not the first time this kernel 2.4.20-20.9 did mess-up things. How much time wasted by Richard and myself on account of an apparent defective kernel from Krud-Linux. What did Ray say or similar, by his experience, with slackware most things work better and smoother. Darn true!
Peter said: > Hi, > I have made a new installation of RH9.0 2.4.20-20.9 where I have a parallel > printer card. The system is now discovering the card. > Doing: "more /proc/pci" I am told that the printer card is using irq 5 and > the io=0xd400. This is the first number to show. There are some more io. > Only to this io does the printer react, meaning it makes that sound when the > print head moves somewhat and only giving this io will lpq give an > information about the print queue. It is a dot matrix printer. > That printer react comes when I do: insmod parport_pc io=0x400 irq=5. After > this lpq gives the usual information about the print queue. There is always > an old queue around either as 'done' or now as an 'error too many tries'. > Now if I want to print something 'lpr file' the keyboard totally freezes and > I have to do a dirty reboot. > Any help appreciated. -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
