> It turns out that the CUPS printing system, which is the rh9.0 > default, totally ties up the parallel port even when the defined > printer is a network printer. Once "cups" is loaded the port > becomes unusable even if the cups service is later stopped. The > only way to free up the port is to reboot the machine it seems. Sounds like a bug report to the CUPS maintainers is required, or maybe they'll know a workaround. As good as CUPS is, I bet they haven't ever tested it with a MIDI device... Cheers Daniel
