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SubjectRe: Where has all the printing gone???
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Harvey Fishman wrote:
>
> CONFIG_PARPORT=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
>
> CONFIG_PRINTER=y
> CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
>
> O.K. The BIG question; what am I doing wrong? I ___DID___ face east and
> bow down three times before I built the kernel. I felt that sacrificing a
> virgin was a bit extreme, so I skipped that step. But why are the Gods
> angry with me and my printer? Thanks for any enlightenment.

The Gods are not angry with you, they are just having a joke at you
expense. You'll find they moved your printer and that it is now connected
to lp0 ...

Actually it's an effect of the parport code not hardwaring lp's to
io/irq's ...

Bryn
PS annother gotcha is not commenting the "SMP=1" line in the top level
Makefile (but you noticed that one ;)
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