Chris Lale wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
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Were the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc loaded during boot?
Did udev create /dev/lp0?
(My Sid box currently does not create /dev/lp0 unless I modprobe lp.)
Well-guessed! /dev/lp0 did not exist. I created it with
# modprobe lp
and restarted CUPS with
# /etc/init.d/cupsys stop
# /etc/init.d/cupsys start
The printer now works. This seems to have been reported as udev bug
#351668: Parallel port /dev/lp0 is not created on boot.
Please also see the bug #374145 I reported and posted about to this list.
The problem was *not* with udev but with the kernel not loading module
"lp" at boot-up. Once I had done "modprobe lp", udev added /dev/lp0.
A previous similar problem I had was that the IDE-CDRW on this computer
wasn't available to applications. The answer I received in response to
my reportbug submission was to add "ide-cd" to /etc/modules. I
experimented with removing "ide-cd" with each new kernel and placing it
back in /etc/modules if needed.
At present, with linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 version 2.6.16-14 I only have
"lp" uncommented in /etc/modules.
Thanks Florian.
Chris.
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