Re: ppa init failure if printer offline, OOPS!

Philip Blundell (pjb27@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 30 May 1997 15:49:40 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 30 May 1997, Bas Mevissen wrote:

> The probe code of the parport causes some problems. I used a deskjet and the
> zip. I got a strange char on top of the first page of every job. This is
> because then the parport driver is loaded again (tested it, it is not the
> IEEE probing of lp.o) Even putting of the probing of the parport did not
> solve the problem.
>
> Tim or Philip should take a look at this.

It's been being worked on. It was caused by the ECR probe routine.

I think Tim may have a patch for it now (and it may be in 2.1.42).

p.