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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu!phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu!not-for-mail From: nlawson@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu (Nathan Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: lpd problems Date: 15 Feb 1995 20:33:46 -0800 Organization: Cal Poly Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3hukja$f34@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu> References: <3hogs6$a09@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu> <3hu351$cpf@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu Once, Brian Somers seemed to say... >Nathan Lawson (nlawson@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu) wrote: >: I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and whenever I turn on my printer, it starts >: spewing out garbage characters. I have the lpt port compiled in as 0x378, >: irq 5, because my sound card is on irq 7. The printer and sound card both >: work fine in dos, and the printer responds to lpt1. The sound card works in >: BSD, but the printer refuses to work. Any ideas? > >What does /var/log/messages say about the two devices at boot time ? lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 5 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface [..] snd2 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa snd2: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1> [..] lpd[61]: restarted It does seem to detect my port there and it prints fine in DOS. Also, there are 2 copies of lpd running. The sound card works in BSD. Any ideas? -- Nathan Lawson | "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more FreeBSD 2.0 | expected in the future." -- Unix Programmers Manual (1972)