[parisc-linux] lp0 kablooie (new kernel)

[Greg Ingram]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:55:41AM -0600, Greg Ingram wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > > Greg Ingram wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Writing data from my C100 to /dev/lp0 makes the kernel go kablooie.  It's
> > > > the kernel from the recent (0.9.3?) iso.  Known problem?  Any more info I
> > > > could supply that would help?  I've appended everything on the console
> > > > from the crash, through the power cycle, to mounting disks again.  
> > > 
> > > Can you grab a newer kernel from ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/32/
> > > and try that?
> > > 
> > > 0.9.3 is just not worth chasing at this point.
> > 
> > Yikes!
> > 
> > apollos:~# uname -a
> > Linux apollos 2.4.17-pa23 #1 Sun Feb 10 09:24:11 MST 2002 parisc unknown
> > apollos:~# echo >/dev/lp0
> > lp0: compatibility mode
> 
> I've reproduced it on my B132. You could avoid the crash by disabling
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC. No idea how good parport works, but my B132 doesn't crash
> anymore.

Hmm...  Can you print?

- Greg