Re: My printer won't print.
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:26:46AM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote:
| On 2001.11.08 15:49 Paolo Falcone wrote:
| > Stephen W. Juranich wrote:
...
| > i assume you know the naming conventions if you're using parallel
| > port printers in the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. what once was the /dev/lp1
| > device then is now the /dev/lp0 device in 2.4.
|
| Am I just crazy, or do I remember 2.0 following the same convention as
| does 2.4 now? In fact, to take it further, did the convention in 2.4
| not change somewhere in the middle of the series?
2.4 has 2 different naming schemes : the old static /dev and devfs.
The user-space daemon devfsd can be used to add old-style symlinks to
the new devices.
| I don't know about the last point for sure, but I ran 2.4.1 for a long
| time (was waiting for the VM shite do be sorted before I upgraded
| again). Then 2.4.13 came along, and from what I read in lkml and
| lwn.net, it seemed the bomb.
|
| Some time later I rember my printing stoped working. After cursing
| around a while, I saw my /etc/printcap pointed to lp1, changed it to
| lp0, and back in business we were. Unless my recent woody upgrade
| poked around there, but I remember keeping most of my config files....
This depends on how your parallel port is found (ie what IO address it
has, or something like that). My parallel port has always been
/dev/lp0 with all kernels I've used (2.2.x and 2.4.x).
-D
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