Re: Amiga parallel port printing 2.4.20 kernel

[lancetag@luminet.net (Lance Tagliapietra)]

Hi Geert,

I have added additional dmesg output from the 3 kernels which I have tried:

http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg-2.2.20
http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg-2.2.25
http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg
(the last is for the 2.4.20 kernel).

In the 2.2.xx kernels above, the parallel port driver does not
show its init message until the first time an lpr command is used
to print a file.  This is visible in the 2.2.20 dmesg as the last
two lines (the buserr in the 2.2.xx kernels is for xdm, which
does not like starting at boot, but runs fine from a startx, 2.4.20
is OK at boot).

So, I'm not sure what to look at next.  The 2.4.20 kernel does
not seem to want to load the driver the first time it is used.  Nor
does it load the driver during the boot process.  Suggestions welcome!

--Lance

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > Has anyone else observed printing from the parallel port not working
> > on Linux m68k kernel 2.4.20 for the Amiga?  I booted back into 2.2.20
> > to test and parallel port printing works there.
> > 
> > lpq indicates that the printer is offline when I can see that it
> > is online. The printer is an HP deskjet.  I also get an error
> > when I try cp file /dev/lp0 which also works under 2.2.20 kernel.
> > 
> > My dmesg can be found at http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg
> 
> I don't see any messages from the parallel port driver?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                                               Geert
> 
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