Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 18:53:47 -0700 (PDT) From: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, george@m5p.com, steve@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/13021: Parallel port printer driver is flaky Message-ID: <199908300153.SAA70497@southstation.m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <199908292013.NAA21816@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> The originator noted that he was able to work around the problem by > using 'ppc0 flags 0x45' which effectively disables ECP and FIFO for > the port. Regrettably, I was wrong about this. Another FreeBSDer out there let me know how to bring back the deprecated olpt driver, and that was the final solution to the problem. I sincerely believe the new driver is still broken and randomly drops characters going out the parallel port. Doesn't anybody at headquarters use a parallel port printer any more? -- George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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