Re: lpr to HP laserjet stalls

[Michael Ben-Gershon]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:22:19PM +0300, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> 
> > I don't know what they mean (the printing itself was not affected) but
> > I guess it would be better to avoid modes which give such messages.
> 
> They are normal, really, and are there to help debugging.
> 
> > At the moment I am loading the module with:
> >
> >       insmod parport
> >       insmod parport_pc io=0x378,0xa800 irq=auto,auto dma=nofifo,nofifo
> 
> So this is interrupt-driven printing but without using the ECP
> hardware.  I wonder why CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO makes a difference.  It
> shouldn't, really, and neither should building it as a module.

Building it as a module meant I didn't have to reboot for every time
I wanted to retest it with different parameters.

Michael Ben-Gershon
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