On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >I've been trying to get NetBSD 1.0 to recognize my printer port
> >the default setup for building the kernel doesn't work
> >On bootup it never recognizes "lpt0" 
> On a lark, try unplugging the printer and booting your machine ... if it gets
> probed on boot _then_, then your printer is being unfriendly (does it probe
> correctly if the printer is turned on, maybe?).  I can send you a workaround
> in this case.
worked, I tried turning it off before but not actually pulling the cable,
What I know:
It doesn't find the port if:
the printer is connected (on or not)
my printer is a BJ200e


> 
> >Why does the keyboard driver take my backspace key as a ^?
> >that's the delete key, backspace is ^H
> >I'm quite certain that the keyboard is fine, It sends different signals
> >but the keyboard driver seems to have its wires crossed.
> >
> >I wouldn't mind so much but several X apps ignore environment settings.
> >and assume ^H for backspace.
> 
> You can fix this by using xmodmap to remap the backspace/delete keysyms.  This
> will only affect X, though.  If you're feeling adventurous, you could always
> dive into the pccons.c source and swap the two events around yourself.

I looked but couldn't find an entry for "del" or "delete"
from the looks of it I wouldn't know what to do with it.
there are two sections that mention "backspace"

	#1


 case '\010':    
                        if (crtat <= Crtat)     
                                break;
                        --crtat;
                        if (--vs.col < 0)       
                                vs.col += COL;  /* non-destructive backspace */
                        break; 

	#2

     ASCII,  "\177",         "\177",         "\010",         /* 14 backspace
*/    


can anyone tell me what to change?

> 
> --Ken
> 

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