On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works > > perfectly > > except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. > > Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly > > appreciated!!! > > Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers > have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some > BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno).
The reason is quite straightforward; in <= 2.0, lp0 is always the port at 0x3bc, lp1 is at 0x378, and lp2 is 0x278. In 2.2, they are allocated only if they are found; lp0 is the first port found, lp1 the second. This is more like how the rest of the kernel devices work. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
