Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:06:33 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/lpt0: Device busy, lptcontrol: ioctl: Operation not supported Message-ID: <20080123150405.A2257@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080123124756.GA1246@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080123124756.GA1246@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> My printing stopped working quite suddenly. > > Until today I used FBSD-6.3-prerelease (today I updated to 6.3-stable) > on compaq armada 1700 laptop to print on a parallel HP laserjet 2100 > printer in text mode and for postscript via apsfilter. All was fine. i use my laptop to print on my laserjet, and it works by default settings, but /usr/sbin/lptcontrol -d /dev/lpt0.ctl -e make it much faster. but nothing like you say. check under DOS, but it may be cable problem. > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 what i have (i don't disable interrupt) ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 1 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold check BIOS settings too.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080123150405.A2257>