On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:47 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > after modprobe lp > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). > > after cat textfile... > lp0: ECP mode
Some googling brought up this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-416986-highlight-.html Apparently there are problems with recent kernels and the printer port. Apparently ACPI Plug and Play support breaks it. Try the kernel settings in that forum post and see if that fixes it. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
