Re: Printing

[Glenn H. <gh...@c2...>]

Hello Ken

On 24-Aug-2001, you wrote:


> Looking through drivers/char/lp.c I see a mention of buggy handshake
> fixed on epson stylus color, of course I have one of these and I can't
> print under 2.4.8.

> Can anyone print under 2.4.8 APUS or m68k or am I just the 'lucky' one ?

No, printing is broken on APUS. (If this hasn't changed recently)...

On my system printing in 2.4 works quite well when DEBUG is enabled in
parport_amiga.c, but others have tried that without so much luck.


Actually the generic printer driver don't work in 2.2 either. (just
remembered this...).
As you may remember when compiling a 2.2 kernel you need to enable
CONFIG_M68K_PRINTER, but not the parport or config_printer...
It looks like the 2.2 printing code (lp_intern.c and lp_m68k.c) completely bypasses the amiga parport driver
(parport_amiga.c).

I tried adding these files to my 2.4 tree, but didn't get it working. I had
to change a couple of lines to make it compile, and maybe that broke
something, or there is something else I forgot about. It prints the first 2
characters, and then goes busy...


- glenn