parallel port not working

[Steve Holmes]

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Well, you may have blown my up coming suggestion but I'll throw it out
anyway.  Might wanna check your BIOS setup to be sure the port isn't
deactivated some how.  I bought this mother board last fall and when I
got around to trying it under linux I saw the same messages in the
kernel start up messages.  Once turned on in the CMOS settup, I got a
parallel port again.  Though in my case, my windows 2000 environment
didn't originally see this port either.  You said you saw it in windows
so I don't know what further to do.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:01:47PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have a Dell demention v350 here, with a non-working parallel port under
> gnu/linux at least. I have the following showing up in my dmesg
> output:
> 
> "lp: driver loaded but no devices found"
> 
> Loading the parport module produces no output, though I thought I saw
> it producing a "device or resource busy" message, but I can't find
> that now in dmesg, assuming that it actually was there in the first
> place. The parallel port is not disabled in bios, and it does work,
> because when I was running windows on this machine, the parallel port
> did show up in device manager. Also, if I try something like:
> 
> echo "test" >/dev/lp0
> 
> I get:
> 
> "bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address"
> 
> Both the parport, and the lp modules are loaded:
> 
> "Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> lp                      6624   0
> parport                25984   0  [lp]"
> 
> Finally, in my 2.4.30 .config file I have:
> 
> "# Parallel port support
> #
> CONFIG_PARPORT=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_IP22 is not set
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
> CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y"
> 
> The only thing I have not tried is to load the parport module, and
> explicitly specify the irq and i/o address, and that's because I don't
> remember what those are by default for the first parallel port. I
> think the irq is 7, but can't remember the i/o address. I'm out of
> ideas, so any constructive feedback would be very much
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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