From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 29 19:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971231555C for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.net) Received: from trooper.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FDA137FB3 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:29:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA09656; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:29:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14483.45082.151986.340011@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:29:30 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Printer fiascos. X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why is it that a properly functioning printer is such a moving target in FreeBSD? I don't mean to be argumentative, but under 3.x, the magic cookie to make printers work (it appeared to be a flow control problem) was to change device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 to device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 Now... I've upgraded to -CURRENT, and it has a much more serious problem. The line now reads device ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7 ... so I havn't tried putting net or tty in it, but I have a printer with a particular problem --- it will often fail to pick up a sheet of paper. I suspect that this sets the paper out sense line of the parallel port (?). When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds the printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer unfreezes. Printer-port related things probe as: ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/PS2/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: PCL,MLC,PML lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: on ppbus0 ppi0: on ppbus0 (I have tried putting the BIOS in different parallel port modes.) Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message