Re: Printer problem

[Deryk Barker <dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca>]

Thus spake Stephen Gran (gashuffer09@comcast.net):
...
> Is the module lp loaded as well?  You might have built it into the
> kernel, but it's worth checking.  It is, of course, unhelpfully, not in
> the same place as the basic parport stuff in the kernel config.  The
> first two are enabled in 'parallel port support', and lp.o is under
> 'character devices' - printer on parallel port or something like that,
> IIRC.  I've made this mistake as well.

Oh, excellent fellow! 'twas indeed not built. I am rebuilding the
kernel as I type. 

I wonder about some of these defaults: do the majority of debian users
a) not have an Intel machine and/or b) not have a parallel port
printer?


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