On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:42:58 CDT, Matt Zagrabelny writes: >first step, as you guessed it, is getting >$ cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lp0 >to work.
Yep, that's why I explicitly mentioned that even that didn't work
(though I usually use /etc/issue.net ;) ).
>are you using udev? have you checked dmesg? what about lsmod?
udev .. it's installed but I don't _knowingly_ use it. The only mention
I find in my logs are about lp device-nodes are for the 2.6 kernel,
from when I un-&reloaded the lp, parport, parport_pc modules probably:
Aug 31 21:47:08 fsck udev[14071]: removing device node '/dev/lp0'
Aug 31 21:47:37 fsck udev[14106]: creating device node '/dev/lp0'
dmesg, AFAICT, looks good:
2.6.8:
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
parport0: Legacy device
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
2.4.27:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Legacy device
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lsmod shows lp, parport and parport_pc in both cases.
cups' logs don't indicate any problems at all.
>what is /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? i am curious.
Ever been annoyed when the system swapped out an app just because you
didn't use it for only a couple minutes? This is the solution, a way
to tell the kernel how aggressively it should be with swapping out what
(it guesstimates) is unused.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 has more detail (I run my desktop
systems set to 5 or 10, and am quite happy).
cheers,
&rw
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