Re: Problem with lp and/or cups
Sven Krahn <sven.krahn@gmail.com> writes:
> since I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.12 any print command (even something
> like 'lp /etc/motd') produces several pages of garbage. Booting into a
> 2.6.11 kernel printing is okay.
[...]
> In addition, the bootlog (dmesg) for 2.6.12 shows the following entries
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> lp0: ECP mode
I saw identical symptoms on my system when I had my parallel port
configured to use ECP mode, so this may well be the culprit; telling
the BIOS to limit the port to EPP mode resolved the lossage. At the
time, I suspected some sort of hardware flakiness, but now I'm more
inclined to suspect a kernel bug.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
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