Re: lpr to HP laserjet stalls

From: Michael Ben-Gershon (mybg@netvision.net.il)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 08:41:22 EST


Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:22:19PM +0300, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
>
> > I don't know what they mean (the printing itself was not affected) but
> > I guess it would be better to avoid modes which give such messages.
>
> They are normal, really, and are there to help debugging.
>
> > At the moment I am loading the module with:
> >
> > insmod parport
> > insmod parport_pc io=0x378,0xa800 irq=auto,auto dma=nofifo,nofifo
>
> So this is interrupt-driven printing but without using the ECP
> hardware. I wonder why CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO makes a difference. It
> shouldn't, really, and neither should building it as a module.

Building it as a module meant I didn't have to reboot for every time
I wanted to retest it with different parameters.

Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg@netvision.net.il
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