/dev/lpt0 - always busy, except when acpi is disabled

[Mike Durian]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 06:00 pm, Andrew Konstantinov wrote:
>
> I have a problem accessing the printer connected to the box via parallel
> port. Whenever I try to send something to /dev/lpt0, it always responds
> with 'device busy' error message,

Was there any follow-up on this?  I've noticed the same behavior -
introduced sometime in the last month or so.

mike