From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 27 14:15:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01180 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from teel.info-noire.com (XP11-1-1-01.interlinx.qc.ca [207.253.79.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01175 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@gel.usherb.ca) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by teel.info-noire.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA18732; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 17:17:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alex@teel.info-noire.com) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 17:17:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Boisvert Reply-To: boia01@gel.usherb.ca To: Mike Smith cc: Zach Heilig , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus is broken. In-Reply-To: <199806271847.LAA15615@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > In a kernel with these lines: > > > > controller ppbus0 > > > > device nlpt0 at ppbus? > > > > controller ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7 vector ppcintr > > > > > > > > There is data corruption for some binary data sent to the printer. When > > > > printing a postscript file with ghostscript, the printer will print properly > > > > for a bit of the page, then start printing garbage. (The printer is a > > > > Deskjet 890C if that matters at all). > > > > [snip] > > > > Just for the records, I use the new "ppbus" driver with -STABLE and I am > > seeing the same "garbage" corruption with my printers (an HP LaserJet > > III/pcl5 or Brother LP-8h/postscript, depending on which one is plugged) > > [snip] > > Do you have 'tty' on the 'ppc' line in your kernel config? This > appears to be a critical item. > No, I don't. I have almost the same configuration as Zach: controller ppbus0 # ppbus stuff controller vpo0 at ppbus0 # Iomega ZIP support device nlpt0 at ppbus0 # printer support device ppi0 at ppbus0 # ppbus interface #device plip0 at ppbus0 # PLIP support controller ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7 vector ppcintr Regards, Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message