Print jobs get into my print queu, but they don't get out. So I started
debugging lpd. After a lot of screwing around, I discovered that the
program was hanging up on line 1875 of printjob.c:
pfd = open(pp->lp, pp->rw ? O_RDWR : O_WRONLY);
pp->lp is "/dev/lpt0"
pp->rw is 0
So then I re
P.S. Here's what dmesg has to say about my parallel port:
ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on
acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: on ppc0
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices
More information about my /dev/lpt0 problem:
1. Enabling or disabling ACPI has no effect.
2. If I boot up in single user mode, I can cat a file to /dev/lpt0
and it prints on the printer.
3. Once I go to mutliuser mode, open("/dev/lpt0",O_WRONLY) hangs
forever whether I start lpd or not.
4. If I "s
