> After a long happy time with the stable kernel, I finally decided to try
> the Beta kernel series to enable me to see the NTFS logical drives on the
> NT side of the box. I had kept some logical drives as HPFS to make them
> visible, but I think that NTFS is much better for my use.
>
> Anyways, I built 1.3.80-pre4 and today I built 1.3.82. In general
> they
You must surely mean 2.1.82, do you?
> both seemed to work, but today I finally got around to trying to print
> something and nada... I have a printing utility (written LONG ago under
> DOS but ported to Linux when I first started with it several years ago).
> It formats the file for printing and then pipes it to the printer. It has
> worked nicely for several years. When I tried running it under the Beta
> kernel, the stuff went in here, it went around and around, and it did NOT
> come out there. Looking at the queue with lpq, the missing files are
> there but there is a nastygram about waiting for lp to be ready and an
> (offline??) thingie at the end of that. Similarly with 1.3.82, except
> that it talks of mp [????] rather than lp (What is mp???). The printer
> itself and the printer port hardware are fine. The printer port is part
> of an Intel chipset on a Micronics system board in a Micron Millenia 100
> machine. It is configured as a PS/2 (i.e. bidirectional) port.
I'm afraid that lp0 became lp1 in development series or something like
that.
> O.K. The BIG question; what am I doing wrong? I ___DID___ face east and
> bow down three times before I built the kernel. I felt that sacrificing a
> virgin was a bit extreme, so I skipped that step. But why are the Gods
> angry with me and my printer? Thanks for any enlightenment.
;-)))
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).