Re: printing woes

["Steve Poling" <sdpoling@xxxxxxxx>]

i take it nobody has anything useful to say on the subject

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Poling" <sdpoling@home.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:37 PM
Subject: printing woes


> Howdy,
>
> over the weekend, I downloaded RedHat 6.2 and installed it without a
hitch.
> Or I thought it was without a hitch, until a couple hours later when I
tried
> to print.
>
> 1. something wicked is happening to the lpd print daemon causing it to die
> for reasons I don't undersstand. I've got my laser printer on /dev/ttyS0
and
> it's a serial printer set to 19200. what i *think* is happening is
something
> changed in one of the more recent kernels to tighten security or
something,
> and i have to do something to give the print daemon access ot the port. i
> don't know know what that is. anybody know what I should check?
>
> 2. what's the "correct" way to restart the print daemon? i feel like a
> microserf loser rebooting justa restart the print daemon.
>
> 3.my ink jet printer on the parallel port is still working, but it wants
to
> access the parport via polled access. i get a message that i hafta do
> something with procfs to get interrupts turned back on. this has been with
> me for a few weeks. any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> steve
>