Re: Epson Stylus Color 740
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 740
Date: Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 08:22:17PM -0800
In reply to:Mono
Quoting Mono(wcaskey@aludra.usc.edu):
> I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup
> and does nothing. I've tried putting it's address in the lilo command
> line with no luck. It's listed under /proc at port 0 with no information
> after probing. Is the 700 series simply incompatible with linux?
>
I don't know about if its compatible or not but there are a few
changes for 2.2.x. The old lp1 is now lp0 so you have to change that
in /etc/printcap.
HTH
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Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware
has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing
machines are so poor at I/O.
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