> 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?
I may not be describing this well, but what I mean is if you have
your printer already turned on, and reboot the computer, normally during
the boot sequence the printer will start making noises like it was just
turned on too. I always assumed that something was probing the parallel
port (it happens under Windows, DOS and OS/2, as well as 2.0.x), so I was
calling it "probing".
Hope that made sense. =-\
Sincerely,
Jimmie Farmer
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