Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:49:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printer Port LPT2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117214825.6065U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD22B2.07BEA6A0@dal12-17.ppp.iadfw.net>
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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Frank Griffith wrote: > As a new user of UNIX and FreeBSD I am still probing my way > thru the fundamentals. > > When my system boots FreeBSD 2.2.5, the following is > displayed in the hardware setups: > > lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa > lpt0: Interrupt driven port > lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f on isa > lpt1: not probed due to I/O address conflict with lpt0 at 0x378 > > I assume that lpt0 is in actuality lpt1 and lpt1 is actually lpt2: Yes, the system ports are 0-based versus 1-based for DOS. > > And this conflict/error is harmless. Correct? Yes, but you can disable lpt1 if you type `-c' at the boot: prompt. that will at least quiet the message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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