wa273@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (John Marco) (05/31/88)
from: John J. Marco:
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To anybody who can help with printer driver:
Is there anybody out there who could help me with my printer
problems?? I have a Blue Chip PC TurboXT with a hercules
clone and an EPSON FX compatible printer. I have tried all of
the diffs and nothing works. Every time the computer boots
MINIX, the 'paper out' light stays on solid (it should flash
if the paper is out.) Something is crashing my printer and I
have no idea what it could be. The error seems to occur before
the 'BOOTING MINIX' message appears. However, turning the printer
on later gives the same result. Maybe something is writing garbled
signals to the port, or my hercules card is interfering, but I have
tried recompiling using the CGA_BASE port addres, with the same
results. Any help or info will be greatly appreciated.
Thanx in advance.
P.S. Is there any way to compile exceptionally large files
with asld? (especially the kernel with Jim Paradis's
tty driver added) Every time I try to compile the
kernel and tty driver it blows up with a message:
$$$ main.c: too big
$$1 main.c: too big...
Maybe, the kernel cannot fit in the 64K segment space.