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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
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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)