Printer Autodetection

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:07:32AM -0500, David Zeuthen 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.
> > 
> 
> As John mentioned there's the concern about that the parallel port
> and/or driver might get upset. Kay also mentioned a while back a bunch
> of issues in doing this, e.g. chaining devices on a parallel port. Check
> the archives. Of course, should you have a patch that does this it's
> worth considering especially since WinXP proves this is possible. 

Sorry, but I do not have patch :)

> OTOH, as few people actually use parallel ports these days is this worth
> looking into at all?

Well, actually I was thinking about this too, maybe this does not really 
worth the effort and possible problems.


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pozsy