Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
On 24 Jul, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since a few days I'm running kernel 2.4.0test4. Before I used to run
> test1 and everything was fine.
<SNIP>
> Any idea why I suddenly can't print anymore? I added the above line
> "options lp parport=0,1" just now to make sure that an lp device is
> created for both parallel ports even tho there isn't a device on lp0
> most of the time.
This got me too - there're several bugs in 2.4.0-test 3 & 4 - test 2
seems quite stable tho'
> Going back to test1 solved the problem, but this is no real solution.
> If there's a bug that crept into test4 it should be solved...
2.4.0-test4 /is/ the bleeding edge of development kernels - and not
recommended for normal use unless there's something there that you
simply can't live without ...
> Help?!
Revert back to 2.4.0test2 - or if this is a desktop machine, back to
2.2.16 or thereabouts (with the reversed md patches if you use RAID)
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