Re: 2.2.xx ? messages related to parport printer ?

Jean-Luc Coulon (jean-luc.coulon@wanadoo.fr)
Thu, 10 May 2001 17:12:33 +0200


Tim,

>> May 9 13:14:59 debian-f5ibh kernel: parport0: Unspecified, EPSON
Styl

>Huh. Does it do the same thing every time you load parport_probe?
>Does it always get truncated in the same place?

Yes ! :-/

[jean-luc@debian-f5ibh] ~ # modprobe parport_probe
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: Unspecified, EPSON Styl

>> With 2.4.4-ac6 and 2.4.xx, I get :
>> ----------------------------------
>> May 9 14:19:44 debian-f5ibh kernel: parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus
>> COLOR 500

>Well, at least it seems to work in 2.4.x.

>I wonder what deviceid makes of it:

><URL:ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/deviceid-0.3.tar.gz>

[jean-luc@debian-f5ibh] ~ # deviceid --base 0x378
MFG:EPSON;CMD:ESCPL2-00;MDL:Stylus COLOR 500;CLS:PRINTER;

There is an other strange thing : escputil expect "Stylus Color" and
my printer send "Stylus COLOR" (uppercase)...
---------
Regards
Jean-Luc

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/