[Lancaster] Printer Problems under SuSE v10.1

[Ken Hough]

I might have known things were going too well. Having installed SuSE 
v10.1 and got to like it a lot, it seems that there are problems with 
printing. Can any of you guys/gals please help.

I've done a bit of investigation and the story so far is:

I have two installations of SuSE v10.1 (on a spare laptop hard drive and 
on an Athlon 2200 box), one SuSE v10.0 installation (on an Athlon 1600 
box) and a SuSE v9.1 installation on a laptop hard drive. Printing works 
on the laptop v9.1 installation and used to work on v9.1 installations 
which resided on the two Athlon boxes.

I took a look at /proc/ioports on all of these systems. On the v9.1 
installation (which works) there is a single entry for 'parport0'  at 
the correct location as shown in the bios utility (ie 03bc-03be -- 
laptop PC).

In all of the other cases which do not work (ie v10.0 and v10.1), there 
are two entries for 'parport0'. The first entry is for the correct 
location as per the bios utility (0378-037a in both cases). However, in 
all of these installations, there is also a second entry for 'parport0' 
at 0778-077a. Is this normal or could this be why there is a problem 
with v10.0 and v10.1?

If this is the problem, how do I correct it?

BTW, I did check out the printer, etc using good old DOS -- Sorry, but 
it's very quick and simple.

Ken Hough