Re: line printer problems / DEC Alpha
In article <touO2.20057$134.208985@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> you write:
>Does the Debian distribution for the DEC Alpha have problems with certain
>motherboards or other hardware? I am planning to get an alpha system, and
>I would like to install Debian.
The best thing to do is to ask on debian-alpha (I've cc'ed that and
put that as the reply-to). That's where the knowledgeable people
(AFAI alpha is concerned :-) hang out.
>I have noticed occasionally some remarks that Linuc has some problems with
>lp0. It seems that I am victimized by them (when I installed my system I
>did change the line printer device from lp1 as suggested by the device
>configuration to lp0. Now the spooler accepts print jobs, but they never
>get printed (I use Berkeley lpr, have run it successfully in previous
>lives, and installed and configured printing on several other systems
>without problems). I was trying to reconfigure printing with lp1, but no
>luck. Does anybody have a suggestion?
Anyone?
>Hartmann Schaffer
>
>PS. Please cc any replies
Paul Slootman
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