Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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).
The reason is quite straightforward; in <= 2.0, lp0 is always the port
at 0x3bc, lp1 is at 0x378, and lp2 is 0x278. In 2.2, they are allocated
only if they are found; lp0 is the first port found, lp1 the second. This
is more like how the rest of the kernel devices work.
Hamish
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