Bug 6563
Summary: | Unable to detect or use Epson Stylus 740 with 6.1 installation. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | glenn |
Component: | printtool | Assignee: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.1 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-11-25 02:57:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
glenn
1999-10-31 07:25:10 UTC
What happens if you remove the entry for it on /dev/lp1, and restart lpd? ------- Additional Comments From 11/02/99 01:24 ------- Removing lp1 and restarting lpd had no effect. So I tried adding the following lines to /etc/conf.modules: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7,auto Then I brought over some stylus 740 upp files for ghostscript, and modified the printerdb file for rhs-printfilters as described in http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html. Then I tried printing the PS test page from printtool on /dev/lp0. This time lpc showed this print status: lpc> stat lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area lp is ready and printing When the print "finished", the print status was lpc> status lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present Unfortunately, there was no reponse from the printer. I would attribute this problem to a faulty printer were it not for the fact that it works without any difficulties under Windows 98. Note that when I connect my old Epson EPL6000 to the same parallel interface, it works. Have you upgraded to the errata lpr? If it still doesn't work with lpr 0.46 (errata) and 0.47 (rawhide), let us know. Parallel printer port/printer still doesn't work with errata lpr (0.46), and 0.47 doesn't yet appear to be available from Red Hat 6.1 customer support web site. I have found the problem, and it's not with RH6.1. The problem is that, for reasons unknown to me, the Epson installation software for the Windows driver ("filter") for the Stylus 740 disables my parallel port, at least according to the Bios Setup for my PC. It didn't occur to me that the setup utility could show my parallel port as disabled even while Windows applications are able to use the printer interfaced to the port. Once I assigned the address 0x3bc and the IRQ=7 to this port, and thereby enabled it, RH6.1 had no trouble detecting my printer, and the printer itself now works fine with the generic Stylus color UP filter provided with RH6.1. Thanks for your help, and I hope that you'll excuse me for not getting to the bottom of this sooner. |