Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:34:43 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer fiascos. Message-ID: <20000130163443.06012@coreff.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <200001300421.UAA28556@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:21:33PM -0800 References: <14483.45082.151986.340011@trooper.velocet.net> <200001300421.UAA28556@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:21:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > When the new parallel port stuff was put several months ago, my > machine stopped working. I had to set flags to 0x40 to make it > work again. Flags of 0x40 force the driver to use the most > basic probes possible. It was put in because a number of people's > machines stopped working. > > It looks like Peter removed the flags 0x40 in rev 1.228 of GENERIC > on Jan 14. Specific chipset detection is now disabled by default since most of the chipsets detected on new MB are not recognised by ppc. A MACHINE option shall be set to activate chipset detection. See http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html for more info. [...] > > David, try putting flags 0x40 back in and see if that fixes your > problem. 0x40 has the same effect only if chipset specific detection is activated at compile time by the correct option. Otherwise the action is null. -- nsouch@free.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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