Re: 2.1.91 parport/dosemu

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:51:58 +0100 (BST)


Hi Garst.

> Hmm, I went to print a wp51 file from dosemu. Nothing happened
> until I exited wp and dos. Then the file printed. Under 2.1.90
> the problem was that kmod did not get parport_pc loaded, and
> while dos was running I could switch vts, rmmod the lp and
> parport then modprobe -k lp. Now parport_pc is loaded and rmmod
> tells the they are busy (correct, they should be). lpq says my
> printer is off-line.

I'd suspect that's due to a bug in WP51 since I've had the same
thing happen under MS-DOS 6.22 with no sign of Linux running...

Not every time, about one in 30 runs it would happen, and I never
did figure out why...

Best wishes from Riley.

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