Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Tim Waugh;
>On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:08:35PM -0500, weg@gauss.wintek.com wrote:
>> I have encountered some difficulties in
>> printing with recent kernels. This is after a
>> long successful experience with 2.2.16.
>Not a lot really changed between 2.2.16 and 2.2.18pre21,
>parport-wise.
>> Writing to the /dev/lp0 results in nothing.
>Does this mean 'the write returns, but nothing happens', or 'the write
>fails', or 'the write hangs'?
>Is the printer plugged in _directly_ to the port? I don't think Epson
>Stylus printers work very well if there's another device in the way
>(no idea why).
I think its more related to the scanner software doing an adequate job
of cleaning up after itself than anything else Tim.
I have a Stylus Pro plugged beyond a Colorado Primax 600p, and its no
problem at all. I think its probaby related to the scanner driver
cleaning up after itself, which this one seems to do quite well.
To demo, I had forgotten the printer was busy on that port, and fired
off the scanner to do a picture. The scanner turned on, I did 2 scans
(one preview, one at 300 dpi). The printer trundled on till it was out
of data and stopped, which was my reminder that _I_ was the sleeping
dummy :).
When the scan was done, the printer took off again and the page
continued to print with no ill effects. The buffer filled up again and
it never noticed when I used the program to turn the scanner back off.
This scanner is a bit of an oddball, not to mention cheap, and 'pxscan'
hasn't gotten beyond 0.2, but at least the port handling is clean, so
*it can be done*.
Cheers, Gene
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