[sane-devel] Question on Parallel port devices

Olaf Meeuwissen paddy-hack at member.fsf.org
Mon Jan 14 12:46:18 GMT 2019


Hi Daniel,

Daniel Glöckner writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 08:40:42PM +0000, Mauricio Hunt wrote:
>> [    7.130079] parport0: PC-style at 0xd020, irq 26 [PCSPP]
>>
>> so the parallel port is there and 'active' at 0xd020, using that IO address in the procedure above gives no results, the scan front-end (scanlite, xsane, etc..) or by shell command returns that there are no devices found.
>
> the pio_open function in sanei_pio.c uses ioperm() to request access
> to those io ports, but ioperm only works up to io port 0x3ff. For
> higher port addresses iopl() must be used.

Would you be able to contribute a patch?

Hope this helps,
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