Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printjob.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031240280.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905011926.MAA12513@athena.tera.com>
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On Sat, 1 May 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > Further examination of my lpr problems have turned up > some strange results. > > As root, lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > spits out essentially blank pages; it prints one test line > and quits. As myself, I run into permission problems. Sounds normal. If you have an HP printer, you're running into the classic 'stairstep' problem. Seee the Handbook section for a script to disable this. By default lpt* has permissions 700. > catting a file ( as root ) to /dev/lpt0 seems to work > in very slowmotion which would seem to indicate some screwup > in the BIOS setup. Try setting the port to polled mode: lptcontrol -i Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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