I own a thinkpad X60s and its docking station (ultrabase X6), which has a parallel port on it. I'm running a 2.6.31 vanilla kernel. When I boot with the laptop while it is docked the 'partport' and 'lp' modules are loaded and I get the /dev/lp0 device I can use for printing. If I boot the laptop when it isn't docked I get no /dev/lp0, as one could expect. The mentioned modules get loaded, but no device is found: lp: driver loaded but no devices found At this time, if connect the laptop to the docking station, the other devices are found (attitional usb hub, cdrom, ...), but not the parallel port. I even tried to load and unload the 'parport' and 'lp' modules, but I get the same 'no devices found' message I cited above. The serial controller behaves differently: it is always present, even when the laptop is not docked and so there is no physical serial port to connect to. In the BIOS the parallel port is configured as a bidirectional port, and it works fine when the laptop is booted docked. I hope that somebody has a clue about this. Of course I can provide more technical details, just ask. Thank you, Paride Legovini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
