Hi, Anyone is aware of such a strange (?) behavior? When I am removing the sl pseudo-device from the kernel config file I am getting strange results printing files (at least .ps files like tiger.ps from gs examples). The printing is fine if I am putting the sl pseudo-device back in the kernel. I use FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE on a Pentium III 450 with i440 BX motherboard. I'm not changing anything in BIOS when I use the two kernels! Here is my config file (tested on 8 different machines) with slighty different hardware configs. # # BOLTZMANN # machine "i386" #cpu "I386_CPU" #cpu "I486_CPU" #cpu "I586_CPU" cpu "I686_CPU" ident BOLTZMANN maxusers 32 #options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] #options MFS #Memory Filesystem #options MFS_ROOT #MFS usable as root device, "MFS" req'ed options NFS #Network Filesystem options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, "NFS" req'ed options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options "CD9660" #ISO 9660 Filesystem options "CD9660_ROOT" #CD-ROM usable as root. "CD9660" req'ed options PROCFS #Process filesystem options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=10000 #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options FAILSAFE #Be conservative options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) syscall trace support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options QUOTA options VESA options "VM86" config kernel root on wd0 controller isa0 controller pnp0 # PnP support for ISA #controller eisa0 controller pci0 # Floppy drives controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # IDE controller and disks #options "CMD640" # work around CMD640 chip deficiency controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 # ATAPI devices options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device acd0 #IDE CD-ROM #device wfd0 #IDE Floppy (e.g. LS-120) # SCSI Controllers # A single entry for any of these controllers (ncr, ahb, ahc) is # sufficient for any number of installed devices. #controller ncr0 # NCR/Symbios Logic #controller ahb0 # EISA AHA1742 family controller ahc0 # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices # SCSI peripherals # Only one of each of these is needed, they are dynamically allocated. controller scbus0 # SCSI bus (required) device da0 # Direct Access (disks) device sa0 # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd0 # CD device pass0 # Passthrough device (direct SCSI) # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1 device psm0 at isa? tty irq 12 device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts # splash screen/screen saver pseudo-device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? tty # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx0 at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) #device apm0 at isa? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 #device sio2 at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 #device sio3 at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 controller ppbus0 # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt0 at ppbus? # Printer device plip0 at ppbus? # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi0 at ppbus? # Parallel port interface device #controller vpo0 at ppbus? # Requires scbus and da0 # PCI Ethernet NICs. device fxp0 # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocated. pseudo-device loop # Network loopback pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP #pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP #pseudo-device tun 1 # Packet tunnel pseudo-device pty 16 # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's # The `bpfilter' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # The number of devices determines the maximum number of # simultaneous BPF clients programs runnable. pseudo-device bpfilter 2 #Berkeley packet filter # # END of Kernel config file # Gheorghe ARDELEAN West Univ. 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