From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 0:35:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DA414F7E for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id CAA01130 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:35:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:35:12 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing and ppbus? Message-ID: <19990321023512.A1090@drwho.xnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <19990312022506.A4926@drwho.xnet.com> <36F41A28.56617C01@voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <36F41A28.56617C01@voicenet.com>; from Peter Schwenk on Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 04:59:04PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 04:59:04PM -0500, Peter Schwenk wrote: > Michael: > > The same thing is happening with me and my HP LaserJet > 4L. Here's my dmesg: My original reply to your message somehow bounced, so I'll try again... anyhow, that is the exact same print filter I was using. However, after having reported this as a bug, someone replied and made mention of the following in your kernel config: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 controller ppbus0 device nlpt0 at ppbus? Note the "tty" on the ppc0 device line. I think the default for some reason makes this "net", but I'm not sure what either of these mean. There's not much in the way of documentation there. But anyhow, after having changed "net" to "tty", I was able to get it *mostly* working. It prints postscript fine now (using gs as filter). However, it *still* breaks on plain text, no matter what kind of print filter I use. For one thing, the printer error light still comes on when trying to print plain text, then there's still the occasional dropped characters. I guess it's not that big of a problem, since I almost *always* print Postscript; even plain text files are usually converted with 'a2ps' here, so it's not as big a problem now. But I *still* would like to get the plain text printing to work again... -- Michael Maxwell | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron." --M. Maxwell (1999) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message