From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 30 7:32:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1.free.fr (postfix1.free.fr [212.27.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEE1151B0 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from free.fr (paris11-nas4-46-245.dial.proxad.net [212.27.46.245]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0B2280CC; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:32:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from nsouch@localhost) by free.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00841; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:34:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nsouch) Message-ID: <20000130163443.06012@coreff.free.fr> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:34:43 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Matthew Dillon Cc: David Gilbert , Peter Wemm , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer fiascos. References: <14483.45082.151986.340011@trooper.velocet.net> <200001300421.UAA28556@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <200001300421.UAA28556@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:21:33PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD coreff 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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