[comp.os.minix] printer driver problems and questions

pa1293@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1293) (11/03/88)

I have a Blue Chip PC (XT clone) with the Blue chip epson compat.
printer.  I get the error 'paper out' when I try to print to it.
Has anybody solved this problem???  If not, how do the various
#defines correlate to the pins on the parallel port and to the
parallel io address?  (i.e. #define NORMAL_STATUS 0x90, ...)

Thanks.
John Marco
pa1293@iugrad2.ucsd.edu
~!nosc!ucsd!iugrad2!pa1293

ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (11/04/88)

In article <689@sdcc15.UUCP> pa1293@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1293) writes:
>I have a Blue Chip PC (XT clone) with the Blue chip epson compat.
>printer.  I get the error 'paper out' when I try to print to it.

It is not clear from your posting which version of MINIX you have.  If it
is 1.3, arrggh.  I had hoped this was solved.  If it is still in 1.3 and
anybody can figure out what is going on, please post your findings.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)