Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-11 Thread Allan Black
> I find > lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ [...] > I suppose I should comment this out? Yes. /dev/lp1 is the char-major-6 device which has being giving you all this trouble. Comment it out, restart lpd or reboot or whatever, reclaim

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I should have said it's the parallel port. Network printers should > work without anything on the parallel port. For a few common > protocols, Linux should be able to print to them. Make sure there's > no local printer in your /etc/printcap if you don't have one attached. I find lp|Generic

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Allan Black
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > > The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one? > Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have > a printer, although there's a couple on the netw

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Carey Evans
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > by aggressively grepping /etc, I found that char-major-6 was an alias > for lp. Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have > a printer, although there's a couple on the network and a deskwriter > (the mac version) availalbe that i'd l

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-09 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > > Jul 8 14:46:30 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one? > (See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt.) by aggressively grepping /etc, I found

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-09 Thread Carey Evans
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > Jul 8 14:46:30 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one? (See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt.

X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-08 Thread Rick Hawkins
help! I upgraded some packages to the latest from unstable (replacing about 2 week old stuff) yesterday, including xbase & the fonts. Now I have X & a modprobe out of countrol. X is using 33-50% of cpu time when doing nothing, and I have recurring message of Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can