Re: lp broken?
Robert L Harris (nomad@rocky.orci.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:14:27 -0600 (MDT)
> > On 17-Sep-97 Robert L Harris wrote:
> > > I'm running 2.1.54 still. Sometime in the past kernel revs I now
> > > get no printer. This is all I get on initialization:
> > >
> > > Sep 16 16:52:03 dogbert kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> >
> > Sounds like you are using modules for your printer. I got a similar error at
> > first (although I can't remember if it was with .54 or .55)
> >
> > Adding alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc in /etc/conf.modules sorted it out
> > (or parport_someotherarch if you don't have a pc clone. I forget which
> > arch's have this, it's not all of them but it is more than pc's)
>
> I am not using modules (never have), but my LP is also broke in
> 2.1.55. It works great in 2.0.30, though.
> I did catch the lp1 is now lp0 gotcha, that didn't solve the
> problem, though.
> I also tried a patch that someone posted about here, to no avail.
>
> > > 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.
Robert
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