Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly
> except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(.
> Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly
> appreciated!!!
Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers
have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some
BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno).
Marcus
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