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SubjectRe: Parallel Driver(s) Broke in 2.6.31
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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