lpt0 always busy

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 26 September 2005 01:42, Stanley Jobson wrote:
> > > i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use the
> > > printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ...
> >
> > Hmm, well it's possible the serial port is broken..
>
> maybe ...

Err parallel port :)

> > Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode?
>
> root at tyrael seb $ lptcontrol -s -d /dev/lpt0.ctl
> root at tyrael seb $
>
> > What do you see in dmesg?
>
> lpt0: switched to interrupt-driven standard mode
>
> looks that everything is ok - not ?
> but open(/dev/lpt0) still complains about "device busy" ...

It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the printer 
is very very special..

What sort of printer is it?

You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY for the 
open.

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