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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9czi?= Szabolcs <szabszi@goodwill.hu>
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Subject: Re: cups parallel backend hang up
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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