From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 2:56: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybercable.tm.fr (mail.cybercable.tm.fr [195.132.0.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B9E215001 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:55:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbera@cybercable.tm.fr) Received: (qmail 6655145 invoked by uid 502); 13 Jan 2000 10:57:55 -0000 Received: from r22m148.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO cybercable.tm.fr) (195.132.22.148) by mail.cybercable.tm.fr with SMTP; 13 Jan 2000 10:57:55 -0000 Message-ID: <387DAF03.DFFDCE1@cybercable.tm.fr> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:54:59 +0100 From: David Berard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel printer & nlpt0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I want to thanks people that answer me : Trond Endretol, Vivek Khera, Michel Talon and Gert-Jan Vons They proposed to me 2 solutions : 1. make a "lptcontrol -p" before using the printer, to configure the parallel port in poll mode. 2. modify the ppc entry in the kernel config file, and build a new kernel --- device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 +++ device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 this 2 solutions work correctly with the lpt driver. best regards. -- David Berard wrote: ... > For example, if I try to print one of the postscript examples (tiger.ps) > from de ghostscript port (gs 5.50), I obtain more or less the picture, > but with some incorrect lines, and some garbages (cabalistic > characters), and sometime unattended formfeed. > > I think lpt0 (ex nlpt0 device) is the problem, because if I change in > the BIOS the mode of the parallel port (SPP, EPP 1.7, EPP 1.9, EPP+ECP), > I don't obtain the same results. > > I also try to play with the flags of ppc device in the kernel config > file, but with no luck. ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message