From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 28 17: 5: 4 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 6CD281531D for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darxpryte@u.washington.edu) Received: from cs237-7.spmodem.washington.edu (cs237-7.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.173.128]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA27855; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:04:07 -0800 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:06:11 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Zentner To: Edwin Culp Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new printer driver (nlpt0) woes In-Reply-To: <36D9E1AA.2AC4BEA9@MexComUSA.net> 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 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: MLC,PCL,PML nlpt0: 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! ========================================================================== 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 ========================================================================== 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message