From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jun 11 13:50:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eel.radicalmedia.com (eel.radicalmedia.com [204.254.246.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805A437B980 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phiber@eel.radicalmedia.com) Received: (from phiber@localhost) by eel.radicalmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA20881; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:37:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:37:29 -0400 From: Mark Abene To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallel Port/Printer Code Message-ID: <20000611163729.C16424@radicalmedia.com> References: <391A02DC.63936163@ibm.net> <20000611040915.B16424@radicalmedia.com> <39439C69.6EC70B64@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <39439C69.6EC70B64@ibm.net>; from Andrew M. Miklic on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:04:26AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:04:26AM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > I don't think the vpo driver works (from previous conversiosations I've had with > people, it stopped working way back arounf the 3.4 stage, and hasn't worked > since)--apparently, someone tracked the problem down to an issue of ECP ports not > being recognized, and therefore, not initialized properly... That person was probably me. It was a while ago, but vpo in ECP/EPP mode wasn't working with 3.4 on my intel box. I found that forcing the flags for the ppc driver to ECP/PS2/NIBBLE (0xb) allowed the vpo driver to work. Maybe this would work on the Alpha in 4.0? Anyway, I had reported this to the driver's author, but don't know what came of it. > > As for the generic lpt/ppc code, I did finally generate the diffs, but they were > 5.0-current based, and have since been merged and the diffs deleted--I can help > you with the diffs for the 4.0-release, if you really want to take this on > (someone else was going to do this, and I even gave him the diffs at that time, > but he became disenchanted with FreeBSD and fled to Linux...) I'm very much interested! > > Only one of the files is really involved, and not much at that...most of the > files that need to be modified are files to include it and its associated options > in the build process for Alpha... > > Let me know if you're still interested... > > P.S Doug Rabson (dfr@nlsystems.com) was the person I was working with; he is the > commiter for this stuff--you might want to contact him, as he may still have the > original diffs laying around somewhere, which might save some time and effort... > > Andrew > I'll copy this message to Doug and the list. Doug, do you have these diffs still laying around? Thanks, -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message