From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 9 9:14: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F1637B405; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:13:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-173.wobline.de [212.68.69.181]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fB9HDoA30193; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:13:51 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB9HF1X06086; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:15:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB9HDud01814; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:13:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:13:20 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: Andreas Klemm 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> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Klemm , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C1273A2.E269C6BB@vortex.wa4phy.net> <20011209144912.GA705@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209144912.GA705@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:49:12PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Machine-Uptime: 5:56PM up 13 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: MLC,PCL,PML Dec 2 22:21:53 jodie /kernel: lpt0: 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