primax: More on primax problem on Mandrake 9
Subject:
Re: More on primax problem on Mandrake 9
From:
Andre Herms ####@####.####
Date:
14 Nov 2002 23:26:15 -0000
Message-Id: <200211150020.29981.aherms@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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> You mean the standalone program will surely NOT work because of this
> problem ??
> All right, so I will try to reinstall the saned stuff and see if it works
> with modprobe ppdev (sigh ...).
The libieee1284 seems to have problems with the devfs. If I use the devfs, it
cannot access the parport. It seemd that the different names are the problem.
The raw parport device is expecte to be /dev/parport0. DevFS uses different
names like /dev/parports/0. So libieee1284 cannot find it. It also doesn't
fall back to the classical way. Normally a devfsd should fix this, but seems
not so.
Okay enough blames.
Try to link /dev/parports/0 to /dev/parport0.
This worked for me.
Hope for you, too.
Andre
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