Re: lp broken? (fixed in 2.1.56 for me)

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:13:13 +0100 (BST)


On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Jimmie Farmer wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Robert L Harris wrote:
>
> > > > > I have /dev/lp0, lp1 and lp2. Does anyone know of lp is broken
> > > > > in this kernel? Is is fixed in a future rev?
> > >
> > > I am about to boot to 2.1.56, so we shal see.
> > >
> > > I did notice that the printer never gets polled during boot to
> > > 2.1.55, like it does when I boot to 2.0.30, if this means anything to
> > > anyone.
> >
> > One hint I got was that I had to turn on "PC Style Hardware".
> > Once I fixed that my printer was working fine.
>
> I had that enabled; I had (and have) ALL parallel port options
> enabled, even the Plug&Pray probing.
>
> I am happy to report though that 2.1.56 gave me lp back. It still
> doesn't get polled at bootup, so I am willing to accept this as a feature,
> but it happily prints now, where it wouldn't with 2.1.55 with the exact
> same kernel options enabled. =-)

Weird. I don't understand quite what you mean by "it doesn't get polled"
though -- you don't mean the device-ID probe?

Tim.
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