Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:13:20 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: on every reboot my DeskJet 970 prints a "0" and ejects paper Message-ID: <20011209181320.A1631@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <20011209144912.GA705@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:49:12PM %2B0100 References: <3C1273A2.E269C6BB@vortex.wa4phy.net> <20011209144912.GA705@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:49:12PM +0100, Andreas Klemm stood up and spoke: > My HP DeskJet 970Cxi is connected via parallel centronix cable to > my FreeBSD machine. Has this to do with driver initialization ? > > I have this problem since a long time I assume. Mostly printer is > powered-off. But today I wanted to report it in the hope somebody > has a solution/idea/fix. Well, I'm not a big expert about the driver initialization code, but I once had a similar problem (ejected blank page on every boot). I fixed this by playing around with the BIOS settings for my parallel port. I simply tried around until it would stop ejecting the blank page. What I also found very interesting is that when your parallel port gets probed, you get a line saying "nibble mode unavailable". On my machine it looks like this instead: Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 930C> MLC,PCL,PML Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port According to the above output, my parallel port runs in COMPATIBLE mode, while yours is running in ECP-only mode. I guess this ECP / EPP / NORMAL mode stuff can be set up in the BIOS, and I would have a look if chaning the currently set up values have any influence on your problem. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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