On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:51:41PM +0200, Géczi Szabolcs wrote: > hi there, > > i just recently installed cups, and i've tried to setup the printer. > but, anytime i start the cups the parallel backend hang up and cups > stops startin' up. > > any idea? You could switch to polled mode: lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 -- Markus