On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > >I *never* expected to see the PNP functions actually pick up the name of > >my printer. I was economically bushwacked by the Windows corps into > >buying the 693C (the version with the Windows software floppies tacked > >on) so I was actually pleased that it ID'd the printer as the more > >generic 690C (sans the Windows extortia). > > > >Very nice. The mistake I'd made earlier was in not knowing that the > >config needed all 3 lines, not just some subset of 2 of them as I'd > >guessed. > > > >Great job, Nicolas! > > BTW, try 'cat /dev/lpt0' ;)
OK, I just cvsupped, I will quickly. There's a reference to setting a drq for lpt, which isn't something I'd had to do before ... I guess there's dma capability since I last looked at it, but how do I tell what dma channel has been chosen for it? Will my bios set it for me, or is it going to be probed somehow? How do I set it? I saw an example with it set to 3, is that a default value (shall I experiment?) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
