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ToLo

Member

From: Flensburg/Germany

Registered: 2006-02-12

Posts: 36

no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

hallo to everyone

since the my last upgrade

-upgraded kernel26 (2.6.15.1-2 -> 2.6.15.3-2)
-upgraded mkinitrd (1.01-25 -> 1.01-26)
-upgraded module-init-tools (3.2.2-1 -> 3.2.2-2)
-upgraded udev (079-1 -> 084-3)
-upgraded initscripts (0.7.1-17 -> 0.7.1-20)

and later
-upgraded kernel26 (2.6.15.3-2 -> 2.6.15.4-1)

I don't get my printer to work.
lsmod says that lp, parport and parport_pc is not loaded automaticly. Loading this modules f.e. by modprobe lp etc. doesn't bring my parallelport-printer to work.

messages.log when starting modules by hand:

...
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7

errorlog from cups if I try to print:

[Job 29] sh: hpijs: command not found
[Job 29] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
[Job 29] **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
[Job 29] renderer return value: 1
[Job 29] renderer received signal: 1
[Job 29] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
[Job 29] KID4 finished
[Job 29] Process dying with "Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.", exit stat: 3
[Job 29] Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.
[Job 29] KID4 exited with status 0
[Job 29] KID3 exited with status 3
[Job 29] Renderer exit stat: 3
[Job 29] Renderer process finished
[Job 29] Killing process 2859 (KID3)
[Job 29] Process dying with "Error closing renderer", exit stat: 3
[Job 29] Error closing renderer
PID 2855 stopped with status 3!
...

The other thing ist, I've to start my audio-device from rc.conf. It is not autodetected at boot.
MODULES=( ... snd_via82xx ...).
Using alsaconf is crashing.

B.t.w. archlinux is great

thanks for any reply

greetings ToLo

Lone_Wolf

Forum Moderator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,964

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

I had similar problems with a parrallel printer, after searching a bit i added the lines below to /etc/modprobe.conf.
since then the printer works fine.

# Load lp support with parport_pc
install parport_pc modprobe -i parport_pc ; modprobe lp ; true

------------------

Sound problem : look for OSS compatibility lines in /etc/modprobe.conf and remove or comment them.

# OSS Compatibility
#install snd-pcm modprobe -i snd-pcm ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; true
#install snd-seq modprobe -i snd-seq ; modprobe snd-seq-oss ; true

This is one of the things that need to be done manually after the last upgrade.

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tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

to me your post sounds like you are not using MOD_AUTLOAD="yes" in rc.conf.
add this and your printer and audio stuff will be loaded automatically, remove the oss stuff from modprobe.conf reboot and all should be fine

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

you cups problem sounds like you are not having installed hplip, please install that then hpijs should be there again.

ToLo

Member

From: Flensburg/Germany

Registered: 2006-02-12

Posts: 36

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

thanks to all of you

@Lone_wolf:

# Load lp support with parport_pc
install parport_pc modprobe -i parport_pc ; modprobe lp ; true

I don't get any effect for my printer. lsmod says, that there still is no
module for my printer

@tpowa:

--MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
  #
  # Module to load at boot-up (in this order)
  #   (prefix a module with a ! to disable it)
  #

--MODULES=(ppp_generic !usbserial !ide-scsi !lp !parport !parport_pc
snd_via82xx !snd_pcm_oss )

--my modprobe.conf is without any entry

--hplip is not installed, that's true. I've deinstalled hplip. My hpdeskjet
690C is not supported by these hpdrivers(Info from the hp-homepage). With
installed hplip-packet I get some errormessages. I've tested now the newest
version (hplip-0.9.8-4 ) without an change.

greetings ToLo

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

ok i found your problem:
you use ! in front of your modules, that means they are not loaded at all by udev.
i would strongly suggest put a # in front of MODULES= and look if all works after it.

ToLo

Member

From: Flensburg/Germany

Registered: 2006-02-12

Posts: 36

Re: no kernelmodules for the printer loaded

@tpowa

thanks, that was the solution. Everything runs like a charm.

fantastic, ToLo