From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 19:28:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19237 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles234.castles.com [208.214.165.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19232 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21828; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806290229.TAA21828@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Zach Heilig cc: Mike Smith , boia01@gel.usherb.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus is broken. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 04:54:53 CDT." <19980628045453.B650@znh.org.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:29:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > BTW, I just tried this again (with a fairly recent [june 25] kernel). > relevant kernel config lines: > > controller ppbus0 > device nlpt0 at ppbus? > controller ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector ppcintr > > detected as: > > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa > ppc0: Generic chipset in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) > nlpt0: on ppbus 0 > nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port > > I can't say for sure that it is fixed, but at least one pdf that used get hosed > comes out properly. Ok, thanks for the confirmation. It sounds like we should be getting rid of the masks in the config file fairly soon, but meantime this is the right way to avoid corruption using the ppbus for printing. It's not clear how this will interact with Zip I/O, actually. I haven't tried it for ages, but then printer I/O was working for me back then too... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message