Parallel Port & Printing

Hi,
I am new to ArchLinux and have been using Gentoo since qutie a while. After installing nearly everything I need I am now struggling with the printer setup. I guess this is due to a problem with my parallel port, cause it does not show up in the selection box of cups. I can choose serial and usb ports, but no parallel ports. I have installed some modules like
lp & parport
I also have cups running of course and it connects. My question is the kernel (2.6.4) must be compiled with support for the parallel port by default, right? At least after loading these modules it should work. What am I missing?
Thanks already!!!

Good advice! Haven't solved it yet, but FWIW I can read the cups documentation. So I set the log to debug mode and here it is:
This log content follows
lp fstab
18/Mar/2004:18:13:15 +0000] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
CloseClient() 5
AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
CloseClient() 5
AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
ReadClient() 5 POST /printers/lpr HTTP/1.1
print_job: auto-typing file...
print_job: request file type is text/plain.
check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root'
print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root'
Adding start banner page "none" to job 16.
Adding end banner page "none" to job 16.
Job 16 queued on 'lpr' by 'root'.
Job 16 hold_until = 0
StartJob(16, 0x8093b70)
StartJob() id = 16, file = 0/1
job-sheets=none,none
banner_page = 0
StartJob: argv = "lpr","16","root","fstab","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00016-001"
StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=iso-8859-1"
StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en"
StartJob: envp[5]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/lpr.ppd"
StartJob: envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
StartJob: envp[7]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
StartJob: envp[8]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
StartJob: envp[9]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain"
StartJob: envp[10]="DEVICE_URI=parallel:/dev/lp0"
StartJob: envp[11]="PRINTER=lpr"
StartJob: envp[12]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
StartJob: envp[15]="IPP_PORT=631"
StartJob: statusfds = [ 7 8 ]
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 -1 ]
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops"
StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 9, 11, 8)
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 2486) for job 16.
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 12 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 10, 12, 8)
I [18/Mar/2004:18:13:15 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2487) for job 16.
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"
StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 9, 11, 8)
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2488) for job 16.
StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel"
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 9 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 10, 9, 8)
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 2489) for job 16.
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
This looks like the problem? Can't find status 22 explanation but must be the next line.
PID 2488 stopped with status 22!
[Job 16] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory
[Job 16] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 612,792
[Job 16] ppd->num_fonts = 35
[snip]
[Job 16] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier
[Job 16] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 612,792
[Job 16] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0
[Job 16] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
[Job 16] 0 %%Creator: texttops/CUPS v1.1.20
[Job 16] 0 %%CreationDate: Thu Mar 18 18:13:15 2004
[Job 16] 0 %%Title: fstab
[Job 16] 0 %%For: root
[Job 16] 0 %%Pages: (atend)
[Job 16] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier-Bold
[Job 16] 0 %%+ font Courier
[Job 16] 0 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset texttops 1.1 0
[Job 16] 0 %%+ font Courier-Bold
[Job 16] 0 %%+ font Courier
[Job 16] 0 %%EndComments
[Job 16] 0 %%BeginProlog
[Job 16] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier-Bold
[Job 16] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999
[Job 16] 0 %%EndResource
[Job 16] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier
[Job 16] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999
[Job 16] 0 %%EndResource
[Job 16] 0 %%BeginResource: procset texttops 1.1 0
D [18/Mar/2004:18:13:15 +0000] [Job 16] 0 %%EndResource
[Job 16] 0 %%EndProlog
[Job 16] 0 %%Page: 1 1
[Job 16] 0 %%Page: 1 1
[Job 16] pw = 612.0, pl = 792.0
[Job 16] PageLeft = 0.0, PageRight = 612.0
[Job 16] PageTop = 792.0, PageBottom = 0.0
[Job 16] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
[Job 16] 0 %%Trailer
[Job 16] Saw Trailer!
[Job 16] Saw EOF!
UpdateJob: job 16, file 0 is complete.
CancelJob: id = 16
StopJob: id = 16, force = 0
StopJob: printer state is 3
CloseClient() 5
Bill Barnes

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