Printer Autodetection

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:49:29AM -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:23 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:09:16PM -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > As for parallel printers I think they
> > > are mostly a lost cause since you need a bi directional parallel cable
> > > and you need to probe.
> > 
> > HAL already does polling on storage devices, I do not see why would it 
> > be a problem to poll parallel ports.
> 
> Because it could produce weird results on certain hardware.

I think it would worth a real-world testing. Do you know any particular 
devices which would be problematic?

Also, I _think_ (but I'm not sure) that winxp does the same thing, or at 
least it is able to detect "hotplug" on parallel ports and get ieee1284 
info, so somehow it is doable.



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pozsy