[sane-devel] Installingproblem with parallellportscanner and Sane.

Philip Moller phmo@punkt.se
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:52:22 +0100


Hi,

No, I didn't have ECP activated before, but I have now, after your 
advice and I have naturally rebooted my computer.
Only one problem (never ending), see here (consol-mode):

[root] # dmesg | grep parport
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, Canon S750
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

Why isn't ECP shown above? I have change it in bios ?
You have to believe me on that.  :-)

I dubbelchecked in my bios and I have this value there now :
Mode: ECP
I/O Adress: 378h
DMA Channel: DMA3

But dmesg don't agree, why?
Is there something else I must do, like reinstall the Kernel or the 
parport0 module, is there a module I have forgotten to install or what ?

Thank's for all help.

Sincerely,
Philip Moller
Malmo, Sweden

Jochen Eisinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Philip Moller wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> I read in the installationmanual
>> (http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/mustek_pp/) under "Known distribution
>> specific issues" that Fedora Core 1 has to remove the symbolic link
>> libsane.so.1, is that advice for Fedora Core 3 to ?
> 
> no, it only affects fc1
> 
> Do you have ECP activated in your BIOS? If you have ECP something like 
> this should show up in your dmesg:
> 
> $ dmesg | grep parport
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1
>                                        [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
> 
> kind regards
> -- jochen
>