Norman Carver wrote:
> Turns out I spoke too soon about the problems
> with the Epson 900 printer being solved.
> The simultaneous usb-parallel connection was
> not the problem after all.
>
> After going into Win98 (again after printing was
> working fine in Linux) printing again does not work.
> There is simply no response from the printer even
> to files directed to /dev/lp0. However, if we turn
> the printer off, power down, printer back on, and
> then reboot, everything works fine. So apparently,
> every boot into W98 screws up the Epson in some way
> so that it will not respond to Linux. The only fix
> appears to be to shut it down and reboot (simply turning
> it off and on while in Linux does not fix the problem).
>
> Any idea what is going on?? Since my friend has to
> use W98 frequently, he is not too thrilled about having
> to remember to always turn his printer off between the
> boots.
>
> Again, thanks for any assistance.
>
> Norm Carver
I experienced a similar problem with both printer and sound card.
Discovered that Win98 and Linux does not necessarily use the same
configuration with various components. A Reboot from windows does not
reset the hardware, one must turn off power so that the boot to another
OS , i.e. Linux will set hardware will be correct. But then you have
discovered this Already!!!
Don'y know anyway around this.
Larry
