Parall port printers

[Jon Smirl]

On 8/2/05, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:40 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > Shouldn't my printer show up in HAL? It is on the parallel port and it
> > properly configured to print.
> 
> Parallel ports can't generate events and polling it could be bad.  There
> was talk some time ago about adding support for this though.

I wonder how Windows does it. Window picks up my printer if I hotplug
it into the parallel port on my laptop.

Doesn't the parallel port use IRQ7 when EPP is turned on? The driver
should be able to generate an event form that.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com
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