Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.

[Eric <ebrower@usa.net>]

Here's an archived message that pretty much sums it up:

  http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-sparc/1999-Oct/0080.html

I doubt the interface documentation was ever released, and even
so, unless you have a few years supply of SPARCprinter toner it
could not possibly be worth the effort.  That said, perhaps the
standard BPP driver will work with that second port.

E

Eric Huiban <ehuiban@pyrenet.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:34, Eric wrote:
> > If I recall correctly, the SPARCprinter card is similar
> > to a framebuffer, not a standard parallel port.  I'd
> > suggest taking a look at the really, really old archives
> > of the sparclinux list as this does get mentioned time to
> > time.
> 
> While "digging" inside shelves full of dust layers and full of unused 
> documentations, i found today the user installation guide 
> dedicated to this card. It mentioned that the first port on the card is 
> specific to the sparc printer (the frame buffer function with pins 
> carrying intensity, vertical and horizotal sync. etc) and the other one 
> is a bidirectionnal parallel port used with printer equiped with 
> Centronics connector. 
> 
> After plugging the dusty beast onto different sparcs, it seems that the 
> openboot detects two "new" devices instead of one. I'm just hoping that 
> the conventionnal one may be used without SUNOS ! As usual : a very 
> specific SUN cable is needed... but some mechanical adaptations or some 
> "soldering" may not be a real pain. ;-)
> 
> Eric.
> p.s. Any happy debianer playing with SBUS FDDI adapters (AMD AM79C830 + 
> sram + AT&T FFDI xcvr) here ? I'm unsure that a so old stuff can be 
> used with Linux... :-)))
> 
> 
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