From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 21 20:46:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost2.u.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8206110FB0 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kzentner@u.washington.edu) Received: from cs237-3.spmodem.washington.edu (cs237-3.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.173.124]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id UAA31297 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:46:14 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:48:07 -0800 (PST) From: kristopher X-Sender: darxpryte@gabrielle.u.washington.edu To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: new printer driver (nlpt0) woes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to get with the new nlpt drivers since the current lpt driver is "depreciated". First I must comment that the documentation for the new lpt driver is kind of poor and the driver does not seem to work the same as the former. I'm trying quite hard to figure out why so perhaps someone can help. printer type: hp 540 the line that I had in my kernel config that works: device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr the one I'm attepting to introduce while commenting out the above: controller ppc0 at isa? port? net irq 7 vector lptintr controller ppbus0 at ppc0 device nlpt0 at ppbus? my main printcap entry I use to print (which uses apsfilter): lp|lp2|penelope|cdjmono-letter-auto-mono|cdjmono auto mono:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdjmono-letter-auto-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/cdjmono-letter-auto-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdjmono-letter-auto-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-cdjmono-letter-auto-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: what happens: about 1/4 of the page prints and then it starts spewing extra pages and garbage. As for now I'm still using the old lpt driver since it still works. I'm a little discouraged that a printer driver that has worked wonderfully for so long is now replaced with one that is different and gives no explaination as to how. Perhaps it no longer works with apsfilter? Any responses are appreciated. ========================================================================== Kristopher Zentner | "Would you tell me, please, which Aspiring Linguist | way I ought to go from here?" FreeBSD Advocate | "That depends a great deal on kzentner@u.washington.edu | where you want to go." said the Cat ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message