From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZE2A-0001N9-TK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:37:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4A0AE05A9; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.tecnet.com.uy (smtp.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D498E05A9 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme.acmenet (r190-64-87-121.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy [190.64.87.121]) by smtp.tecnet.com.uy (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m2BNb64E020966 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:37:10 -0300 (envelope-from ljc@internet.com.uy) X-TN_STAT: 8233 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:37:17 -0300 From: luis jure To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] no dma on parallel port Message-ID: <20080311203717.639e6123@acme.acmenet> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7234b94a-3d45-467e-9ee4-fb5403c27b03 X-Archives-Hash: 50bb531415208a0ed9969663f268b49b hello list, searching information that could help me solve the problem of my old HP laserjet 1100 printing too slow, i found something about dma and parallel port. i activated ECP on the bios, the address of the port is 378, irq 7 and dma 3. but dma is not activated when booting: lj@acme ~ $ dmesg | grep parp Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 ro parport=0x378,7,3 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven) lj@acme ~ $ cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/dma -1 i have the drivers compiled in the kernel, not as modules. i added this line in menu.lst: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 ro parport=0x378,7,3 not sure about the syntax, i couldn't find anything in the grub documentation about passing kernel parameters. anyway, i get no dma on parport0. i have an oldish soyo kt333 motherboard, and i tried this with different recent kernels (2.6.23 and 24) any help greatly appreciated. best, lj -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list