Re: ppa init failure if printer offline, OOPS!

Tim Waugh (tmw20@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 30 May 1997 23:21:39 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 30 May 1997, Bas Mevissen wrote:

> The probe code of the parport causes some problems. I used a deskjet and the
> zip. I got a strange char on top of the first page of every job. This is
> because then the parport driver is loaded again (tested it, it is not the
> IEEE probing of lp.o) Even putting of the probing of the parport did not
> solve the problem.
>
> Tim or Philip should take a look at this.

There's a patch on <http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html> to stop
this from happening, but it isn't "good" yet.

Tim.
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