I haven't been able to get my printer working with the last couple kernels but both of them were custom compiled so I assumed it was something I didn't include in the kernel.
Today, however, I installed my new CD-RW drive and happened to leave the printer on when I shut the computer down and rebooted. The printer (an HP DeskJet 932C) printed what appeared to be random console output from VC1 on both shutdown and boot. I suspect that if I turn it back on it will print some more... I'm using cups for printing and running lpstat -o tells me there're no jobs. lpstat -a tells me lp1 (my printer) is accepting jobs... to be honest, this is probably the weirdest thing I've seen since I started running Linux and it's got me stumped... here's my dmesg, in case it tells anyone anything (the opl3-sa2 errors are from my sound card and it's been going on since 2.4.2 or so): Linux version 2.4.16-dvb2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 29 23:07:27 CST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000e000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 57344 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 53248 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=341 hdd=ide-scsi apm=on vga=ask ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 233.290 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 222940k/229376k available (1349k kernel code, 6048k reserved, 461k data, 240k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1459.39 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000040 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 233.2955 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 66.6556 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 666556, slice: 333278 CPU0<T0:666544,T1:333264,D:2,S:333278,C:666556> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9cc, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Snd System' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.15) Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc90-0xfc97, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 84320D4, ATA DISK drive hdb: IBM-DJNA-372200, ATA DISK drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: AOPEN CD-RW CRW2040, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 8439184 sectors (4321 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=525/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 44150400 sectors (22605 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=2748/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xfcc0. Vers LK1.1.16 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 177M agpgart: Detected Intel 440LX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440LX @ 0xf8000000 64MB [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfca0, IRQ 11 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.15, 06 Nov 2001 on ide0(3,65), internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e NTFS driver v1.1.20 [Flags: R/O MODULE] scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: AOPEN Model: CD-RW CRW2040 Rev: 1.21 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... opl3sa2: Activated ISA PnP card 0 (active=1) opl3sa2: chipset version = 0x2 opl3sa2: Found OPL3-SA3 (YMF715 or YMF719) opl3sa2: Search for a card at 0x880. opl3sa2: Control I/O port 0x370 is not a YMF7xx chipset! opl3sa2: There was a problem probing one of the ISA PNP cards, continuing opl3sa2: Control I/O port 0x370 is not a YMF7xx chipset! opl3sa2: There was a problem probing one of the ISA PNP cards, continuing opl3sa2: Control I/O port 0x370 is not a YMF7xx chipset! opl3sa2: There was a problem probing one of the ISA PNP cards, continuing ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.15, 06 Nov 2001 on ide0(3,70), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!