Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:06:11 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Zentner <darxpryte@u.washington.edu> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@MexComUSA.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new printer driver (nlpt0) woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902281651350.935-100000@gabrielle.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <36D9E1AA.2AC4BEA9@MexComUSA.net>
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Greetings,
I think I might have posted it to the list but here's what works for me
now (apsfilter works dandy too).
# Parallel port and friends. This replaces lpt0 (see lint or man pages)
controller ppbus0
device nlpt0 at ppbus?
device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7
The other spiff thing is that dmesg will actually show the probe of ppbus
so if there is a printer connected it will give the name and model of the
printer as shown below.
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
ppc0: Winbond chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppb0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 540> MLC,PCL,PML
nlpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port
Note this probe will not take place if you have nothing connected to lpt0.
I don't think ghostscript should affect the new printer driver. Best of
luck!
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Edwin Culp wrote:
> Were you able to get the problem solved? I'm having the same problem with
> an Epson stylus with Current. It started with the new driver, plus I updated
> ghostscript to 5.50 at the same time and still don't have it sorted out.
>
> thanks
>
> ed
>
> kristopher wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> CUT
>
> >
> > what happens: about 1/4 of the page prints and then it starts spewing
> > extra pages and garbage.
> >
>
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