Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:26:36 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Parallel Driver(s) Broke in 2.6.31 |
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:54:47 -0500 Steve Meisner <smeisner@charter.net> wrote:
> I posted to the Mandriva forum with no luck yet. I recently upgraded to > Mandriva 2010.0 and in doing so lost ability to use my parallel printer. > After many hours of debugging effort and finding nothing in logs or > hardware/driver error messages, I went on a hunch that it could be related to > the kernel. So I rolled back to the 2009.1 kernel 2.6.29 and printing > returned. I don't know how to proceed with determining the root cause as I > cannot find any error in the logs or differences in hardware detection and > module loading. I don't even know the hierarchy of the modules involved > (parport, parport, pc, lp, and ppdev). Should I start diffing those modules > and see if I get lucky applying hacking 101 techniques? Please CC me > (smeisner@charter.net) if you have any suggestions (except for buying a new > printer).
Start by looking at the boot messages from each ("dmesg" as a command will show you them after boot).
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