Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:33:04 +0200 From: stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy Message-ID: <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <20050924163501.GA53285@neptune.atopia.net> <20050925095140.5bbb3162.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> > so it seems that fbsd expects some kind of status reply from the > > printer - correct? > > > > if so: how could i by-pass this? (cause my ugly gdi printer is > > probably not able to answer correctly) i just wonna have access to > > my parallel port ... > > It expects that your printer will toggle the BUSY line as it should.. > I don't believe you'd be able to print on any OS if this was broken. i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use the printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ... > > Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) > i think so: lpd is not running and lsof | grep lpt doesnt show anything either : ( so i guess there could be a prob with the ready/status checking procedure any other ideas? any idea how to by pass this check so other programs (like qemu) could simple use the port? maybe it s necessary to hack the lpt driver - but because i am not a kernel hacker (maybe a good c hacker :)) - some help with this would be really nice ... thx regards, stan
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