Bug 206380

Summary:	Unable to configure parallel printer
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Steve Gunhouse <svgunhouse>
Component:	Printing	Assignee:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Steve Gunhouse 2006-09-17 06:19:04 UTC

When I try to configure my printer, YaST2 tells me there is no /dev/lp0. Not only is there a /dev/lp0 listed if I browse /dev, but I previously had Mandriva 2006.0 installed on this machine and it worked fine (and yes, my printer - an Apollo P-1200 - is connected and turned on, and resets itself at what seems to be an appropriate time in the boot sequence).

Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2006-09-18 08:15:07 UTC

Regarding/dev/lp0 see
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/2640.html


There are some bug reports about problems with the parallel port
in our Novell/Suse Bugzilla.
A good report to start is bug #185135
See also the other bug reports which are mentioned there.

Something is fishy with the parallel port stuff in the kernels
since Suse Linux 10.0, see
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Nov/1206.html

The current workaround is to experiment with various BIOS settings
and explicite additional settings in /etc/modprobe.conf to find a
setup, which actually works in a particular problematic case.

I close this one as duplicate of bug #185135.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185135 ***