Subject: Re: LPVI / SparcPrinter driver
To: Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/28/2000 11:43:36
> Have a look at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/devices.html.
> It mentions a user-contributed ghostscript device driver for the
> SPARCprinter.  I think the problem is that you'd also need a kernel
> device driver for the interface - isn't it an Sbus card with one
> Centronics port and one funny SPARCprinter port?

Yes, the kernel driver is the part that's missing.  The SPARCprinter
SBus card seems to have a regular centronics port and the special
`lpvi' interface.  The centronics port shouldn't be too much trouble,
but it won't work for the SPARCprinter.  The problem has always been
to find the specs for the `lpvi' hardware.

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