plustek@linuxhacker.org

Hi,

as I did not follow the parport list, this is some interesting info. It seems
that at least ATHLON boards tend to cause some trouble here.
Thanks Kevin for this info
  Gerhard

On Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 16:01, Kevin wrote:
>     FWIW, I have been running several MBs with the PP set to ECP+EPP in
> the BIOS, for my 9636T scanner, for some time (well over a year). I need
> to do this to have the scanner work with Windows under VMWARE. I use
> Mandrake, which has support for dma PP transfers (needed for ECP mode,
> as well as an interrupt for the PP) turned on by default in the stock
> kernel. Other distros, in particular Red Hat, do not have this turned
> on; you have to recompile the kernel with this option enabled (This info
> comes from some reports on the parallel port mailing list). Unless there
> is something strange about a particular scanner (the older ones,
> probably), if you have ECP+EPP mode enabled in the BIOS and have the
> proper support in the kernel, the scanner should work fine with this
> setting.
>
>     Kevin
>
>
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