On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:39:17AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:53:25PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > My printer doesn't work very well unless I type > > lpcontrol -p > > What is the "correct" way to make this happen when the computer first > > boots up - is there some setting in device.hints or something I can put > > in the kernel config so that it defaults to this? > > I've got: > > hint.ppc.0.flags="0x28" > > in my /boot/device.hints to do this.
Using 0x28 also puts the port in ECP mode. To put it in polling mode only, use 0x20. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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