>On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Marcus Berglund wrote:
>
>> - parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
>> This is a forced configuration on a SPP/EPP/ECP/ECP+EPP (doesn't matter
>> which mode) port, otherwise it won't find the irq, and it refuses to work.
>
>What's funny -- that it needs to be told the IRQ?
>
2.0.xx doesn't need to be told...
Mr. Joe Computer user who upgrades to the soon to be 2.2 will be lost to
why his parallel port doesn't work, and since he needs to do a lot of
printing, he may just give up...
The difference between genius and stupidity
is that genius has it's limits.
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Linux / Unix System Administrator
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
E-mail: mabs@diesel.net.au
Web: http://mabs.home.ml.org/
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