Bug 132793

Summary:	Parallel port is not connected
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Lanczak <mlmuit>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Michael Lanczak 2005-11-08 20:11:40 UTC

The connection of the parallel port is not standard after installation of LINUX.
First you must open the data /etc/modprobe.conf and remove the commentary sign '#' in line 'options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none'for driving printers on the parallel port.
You must mind, that I am a professional computer user and programer and have no problems to find such a data like "/etc/modprobe.conf" with the register with correct lines. But a normal computer user, a layman must get many problems here!

Comment 1 Martin Lasarsch 2005-11-09 13:16:42 UTC

hm, works for me:

d159:~ # procinfo | grep parp
irq  7:         0 parport0 

d159:~ # grep parp /proc/ioports
0378-037a : parport0

d159:~ # grep parp /etc/modprobe.conf
# Load lp after parport
install parport /sbin/modprobe -i parport && /sbin/modprobe lp
alias parport_lowlevel    parport_pc
# options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none
# options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278  irq=none,none

i also talked with our printer maintainer, this could happen, it depends on the hardware. I searched the bugzilla for more problems like this, you are the first one. So you need only to uncomment the line if you have problems with the parport, means autoprobing is not working.

Comment 2 Martin Lasarsch 2005-11-09 13:17:05 UTC

*** Bug 132792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***