Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:47:09 +1100 (EST) | | From | Marcus Berglund <> | | Subject | Re: Puzzeling 2.1 boot messages |
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Tim Waugh wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Marcus Berglund wrote: > >> 2.0.xx doesn't need to be told... >> Mr. Joe Computer user who upgrades to the soon to be 2.2 will be lost to >> why his parallel port doesn't work, and since he needs to do a lot of >> printing, he may just give up... > >It isn't possible detect the IRQ when the port's in SPP mode, but that >shouldn't stop anything from working (lp should revert to polling mode). >What exactly "refuses to work"?
I just get waiting for response from printer (or similar) errors, timeouts with plip, you get the idea...
And no auto-detection happens in any port mode, it just says that it's an SPP mode port, hardware problem?
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