Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: minix problems - I'm back Keywords: lpr/RLL controller Message-ID: <3441@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 29 Sep 89 20:31:29 GMT References: <1856@unocss.UUCP> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 15 In article <1856@unocss.UUCP> mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) writes: > >My buddy who got me started with Minix can't use his printer. It works >fine under MSDOS, but he gets consistent "printer not ready" errors when >he tries to print anything. What is Minix doing Chances are your printer is located at a different I/O port address than MINIX expects. MINIX thinks that the printer port is determined by the presence/absence of a color display, which is indeed true for genuine IBM gear, but not for all clones. Look at the printer driver and hard code the proper port into it. This problem has been fixed in recent versions. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)