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 lik e connect to.
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.
> 95 ? S 0:01 /sbin/kerneld
> 11167 ? S 0:00 \_ modprobe -k -s char-major-6
> 11168 ? S 0:00 \_ sh -c echo /lib/modules/boot/lp.o
> /lib/modules/boot/lp.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/fs/lp.o /lib/modu
> 11181 ? R 0:00 \_ bash /sbin/kernelversion
Does lp.o exist? I suspect you didn't compile parallel printer
support into the kernel or as a module. There's nothing wrong with
that, although on second thought, my suggestion to `alias char-major-6
off' is probably quite good.
If you add a w or two to the ps flags, you should be able to see what
the shell invoked by modprobe is doing, probably searching for lp.o in
the paths in conf.modules.
> At the moment, I'll take anything that works :) but is this likely to
> even be related to X itself sucking cycles?
Well, maybe not. But it should make things a bit better.
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