Bug 116169

Summary:	Parallel Port of Asus P4R8L not discovered
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	David Geissler <master>
Component:	Printing	Assignee:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description David Geissler 2005-09-09 16:06:06 UTC

The Parallel Port of the Asus Mainboard P4R8L (shipping with ASUS Pundits as
well) is not recognized by the system - which means I can't print. There is no
/dev/lpx.

Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-09-09 16:11:28 UTC

*** Bug 116170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2005-09-12 06:10:14 UTC

There is a difference whether /dev/lp0 exists or whether the parallel
port is not autodetected.

Parallel port autodetection works well for me therefore I think
it is a special problem with your special hardware.

Which printer do you have?
Did it work before RC1 (i.e. with 10.0 beta[1-4] or with 9.3 or 9.2)?

See for example
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-parallel.html
how to set up a parallel port (note that it is now /etc/modprobe.conf).

Use something like
dmesg | grep 'parport' | tail -n20
or
grep 'parport' /var/log/messages | tail -n20
to get the last 20 (error)-messages regarding your parallel port.

Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2005-09-14 10:32:14 UTC

No info which means that it seems to be solved.
Perhaps it might be a duplicate of bug #116655 but I don't think so
because bug #116655 happens since RC2.