[cups.general] Suse 9.2 and CUPS.

[Jordi]

Dear Johannes,

Suse 9.2 recognize all of my parallel ports,  including the motherboar's one (Intel D845GERG2) and two ports located in a pci card (Sunix 4014).   The installation program (the new Yast2) detects and install all the printers attached to the ports (Designjet 220,  Ricoh Aficio 220 and HP laserjet 5).  At this point all seems running fine but after the install,  you got a messy installation with no /dev/lp files.

As I have pointed, the ancient Suse 8.2 just runs fine with the same hardware,  but the new version 9.2 need some patching.

Thanks a lot.

Johannes Meixner wrote:
>
>
> I don't know what they meant with "some brands of parallel ports".
> If they meant some kind of additional parallel port cards
> then it is true.
> But if they meant that some kind of parallel port printers
> do not work using the normal parallel port of the computer
> then it is 99.9% wrong.
> Of course there may be printer crap where the printer's
> parallel port interface doesn't work and there may be
> motherboard crap where motherboard's parallel port
> interface doesn't work.
>
> See
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-einrichten.html
> and
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-parallel.html
> how to set up parallel port stuff if it doesn't work
> out of the box.
>
> Again:
> This is not related to CUPS.
> I.e. this is the wong mailing list to ask how to set up
> parallel port stuff in Linux.
>
>
> Regards,
> Johannes Meixner
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