printer problem (was Re: 3 (possible) problems with 2.3.4X)

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 14:32:48 EST


On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> 1) since switching to 2.3, my printer (an Epson 850 hanging from a
> PC-style parallel port) has become extremely erratic. Printing
> works, but data transmission will stop for hours on end. This is
> likely a configuration problem, but i've been through the kernel
> build several times, and have not come across a way to make it
> work. Simply rebooting 2.2.10 makes the printer work just fine.

Please send me the output of dmesg after modprobe parport_pc, as well as
the parport/printer-related config options in your .config. Also, which
specific kernel are you running?

Tim.
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