How to set polling for printer upon startup

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:39:17AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:53:25PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > My printer doesn't work very well unless I type
> > lpcontrol -p
> > What is the "correct" way to make this happen when the computer first 
> > boots up - is there some setting in device.hints or something I can put 
> > in the kernel config so that it defaults to this?
> 
> I've got:
> 
>     hint.ppc.0.flags="0x28"
> 
> in my /boot/device.hints to do this.

Using 0x28 also puts the port in ECP mode. To put it in polling mode
only, use 0x20.

Roland
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