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Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94



Aria Prima Novianto <aria@purdue.edu> writes:
APN> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote:
 JD> 
 JD> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
 JD> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
 JD> the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer
 JD> all as modules).
 JD> 
APN> 
APN> Edit /lib/modules/2.1.94/modules.dep
APN> 
APN> Change
APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o
APN> to
APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport_pc.o

The better thing to do (which won't have to be redone with every
kernel upgrade) is to put an alias in your /etc/conf.modules for the
parport_lowlevel driver, like so:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

Unfortunately, I've not had much luck with this at all.  Instead, I
have

post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc"

This seems to work significantly better.  It's the same trick I use to 
get the 2.1.x modularized sound driver working properly; I don't know
if there's a better way.

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