[linux-audio-user] mtpav and cups on rh9.0

[Daniel James]

> 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