From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: After printer has been idle for a time a call to lpr causes this message to appear on the screen, "Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370, 250, 4E, 2E (etc.)... SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing ports 2F0, 370, (etc.)." These messages even overwrite any application screen which is running. In installing 7.1 I took the server option and let the installer decide on all configs. I have examined lpd, lprng, etc. and can not find the source of this message. Can not redirect to dev/null. This only occurs after printer has been idle for a time. If you print again just after this message the message does not repeat (until the printer has sat idle again for a while, - have not timed it). Is this output possibly from new lprng utility? Or where? Message comes up whether logged in on console or other term. Does not come up under xterm. Does come up under command line terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Don't know if you can reproduce. But, to try, set up 7.1 using server class install. 2.After booting let printer (while switched on) stand idle for some time. 3.Print using lp or lpr and msg should come up. Additional info:
Hi All, I have the same problem on two rh 7.1 servers. I also have two other servers without the problem. The first two with the problem both use /dev/lp0 (lpt1) and are fresh installs of rh 7.1. One is SMP and the other is a single processor. The SMP unit gets twice the Windbond gargage on the screen as the single. The third unit without the problem is a fresh install but does not use /dev/lp0. (It spools for network printers with MIO cards.) The forth unit, also without the problem, uses /dev/lp0 but is an upgrade from Red Hat 7.0. The only time the Windbond messages pop up is if I deliberately restart lpd ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart"). I hope this helps, --Tony aewell
Super-Bond and SMSC mesgs are logged by /etc/syslog in /var/log/messages.
Hi All, The clutter (Super-Bond and SMSC mesgs) in question is being sent to both /var/log/messages and /dev/console. The problem is the echo to /dev/console. --Tony aewell
You could reproduce this if you removed/inserted the kernel parallel port driver modules manually (using using "rmmod" and "modprove"). See output of "lsmod" for which modules are loaded. Also note kernel 2.4.3-12 update.
Use the 'dmesg' command to adjust the amount of kernel traffic that goes to the console. This annoying message has been fixed in later kernels (2.4.5 onwards).