Bug 116169 - Parallel Port of Asus P4R8L not discovered
Summary: Parallel Port of Asus P4R8L not discovered
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
: 116170 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: RC 1
Hardware: i586 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: Johannes Meixner
QA Contact: Johannes Meixner
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Reported: 2005-09-09 16:06 UTC by David Geissler
Modified: 2005-09-14 10:32 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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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.