Bug#406056: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64: lpt printer not working (garbage printed)

[Jacek Misiurewicz <J.Misiurewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64: lpt printer not working (garbage printed)
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64
Version: 2.6.18_7_amd64
Severity: normal

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Printer connected to parallel port prints garbage (or just 
nothing: seberal blinks and stop, sometimes).

The same platform running 386 kernel (other distro: FC4) works fine.


Simple test: (as root) echo Hello World>/dev/lp0

The same platform running amd64 kernel in other Linux distro (PLD2.0) 
fails in similar way - thus it is the general amd64 kernel (or kernel 
configuration) problem.

Probably it is the kernel bug 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5832
because the syndroms and configuration are very similar.

> From the above bugzilla.kernel bug report: in some distros the problem has 
been apparently "solved" temporarily by changing the default installed 
kernel config.

I'll post more if I find out. ;-)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)