Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 1996 01:28:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Two 2.0.10 problems? |
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On 6 Aug 1996, Joe Fouche wrote:
> I don't know whether either of these have been fixed in 2.0.11, > but I suspect they haven't. Comments welcome: > > 1) I ran 'strings /proc/kcore | less' once and the system seemed > to die horribly. Someone might want to check this out, but I'm > not sure if it's reproducible because I'm not willing to try > it again :) >
Hmm, works fine for me ....
> 2) The lp driver seems to behave badly when my printer is turned > on. I'm using an HP DeskJet 540. Basically, when the driver > is installed (I've seen the same behavior via module or built-in > support), it will say > > lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. > > instead of > > lp1 at 0x378 (polling) > > In short, the driver only starts correctly if I have the printer > off when it starts. This is a bug, right? :) >
Hmm, proberbly get's things wrong when the printer is on, try loading like so:
~# insmod lp io=,0x378 irq=,7
irq 7 is the default, and the commas are important, or you'll have that port called lp0 (but if that's ok ....;).
As an added bonus you'll get the parallel port set to use irq's rather than being polled (tunelp lp1 -i 7 would do the same thing after you were told it was going to poll).
If that works for you, you can put it in your /etc/conf.modules:
options lp io=,0x378 irq=,7
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