Re: Printing

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

Hi,

On 24-Aug-01, Ken wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Glenn Hisdal wrote:

> Hello

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

>> 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 used CONFIG_M68K_PRINTER in 2.2 and printing was fine, I never
> discovered the problems.

yes, that's what I said (well, what I meant to say anyway)...
This appears to be the case in 2.2:
when config_m68k_printer is set, printing works fine (the code in lp_m68k.c
and lp_intern.c is used).
If you instead of setting config_m68k_printer=y, set config_printer=y and
config_parport_amiga (or whatever it's named) = y, it will use the code in
lp.c, which in turn uses parport_amiga.c functions to send data to the
printer. This is the same as in 2.4, and does not work properly...


- glenn