Bug 8570
| Summary: | Installer doesn't autodetect printer on LPT1 io=0x378 irq7 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | rich gregory <rtg2t> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | srevivo |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-04-04 21:35:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is fixed in 6.2 (specifically, in modutils.) |
I ran a KDE workstation install with a brand new Dell GX1 PC. It did not find LPT1. Printtool could not detect any of the three LP ports. In the Printing HOWTO it described how the printing modules had been changed 3. Kernel printer devices 3.1 The lp device (kernels <=2.1.32) 3.2 The parport device (kernels >= 2.1.33) 3.3 Serial devices This pointed me to parport.txt in the rpm file kernel-doc-2.2.12-20.i386.rpm This doc told me to add this at boot time insmod parport insmod parport_pc insmod lp Eureka..printtool finds the printer!! cheers, rich