Re: lpd completely kills 2.2.1

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:14:22 +0000 (GMT)


On 1 Mar 1999, Christoph Lorenz wrote:

> It was *very* *very* difficult to get Linux working (and not printing)
> again (I forgot, that deleting files in single user mode does not modify
> anything at all, when you cannot shutdown your machine, but have to reboot
> it the "hard" way, aka power off-power on :-) I think, you can guess, what
> happens the next fsck).

man sync. What's in /proc/parport/0/hardware (you might need to modprobe
lp or something)? You can disable lp with "lp=0" on the command line, and
you can disable parport altogether with "parport=0".

What printer do you have, and what motherboard?

Tim.
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