On 10 Oct 2005, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:16:02AM -0700, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > > > > Also, did you see Charles de Miramon's <cmiramon[at]kde-france.org> > > email? He said: > > > I had the same problem than Malcolm. Upgrading my kernel to > > > linux-image-2.6.12 > > > broke printing on the parallel port on my computer. It seems that > > > something > > > changed in the parport module. > > > > > > I've reverted to 2.6.11 and the problem was solved. > > Do you think I should do the same? If so, how do I revert to an older > > kernel? I think if I had the option, I would rather keep the latest > > one. > > If you are using grub as your bootloader you can have more than one > kernel image on your system. You can choose which one to boot from the > grub menu at boot. So why not install more than one? > > (ok, yeah you can have more than one kernel image on your system even if > you are not using grub as your bootloader. The important thing is being > able to choose which one to boot from and I *know* grub supports this > but not sure about lilo etc.) > > If installing 2.6.11 fixes the problem -- then I'd use that one. > > You only need to apt-get 2.6.11 the same way you apt-get 2.6.12. > > Maybe change to grub if you are presently using lilo. > > Don't worry about the latest & greatest kernels unless you have the > latest & greatest hardware.
[snip] In my case, printing works with 2.6.12 but breaks with 2.6.13. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
