Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer compatibility Message-ID: <200003300139.RAA14862@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003300237270.588-100000@tulip100.evertsen.nl> (message from Ronald Klop on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:42:12 %2B0200 (CEST))
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> From: Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl>
>
> Maybe it is something with the interupt-driven/polled printer port. See
> the mailarchive on www.freebsd.org/search for more info on this. See also
> 'man lpt' and 'man lptcontrol'.
> I had similar problems once, but I don't know if they have the same
> reason. Because you don't send any info about your configuration (ports in
> kernel) in your e-mail.
> ...
I am both grateful and a little embarrassed. I would have checked the
archives except that as I tested it, it seemed to be a ghostscript
problem, not a FreeBSD problem. I assumed the parallel port *must* be
fine as it works great under that other O/S. I never thought of the
port driver.
Anyway, I set it in polling mode and it prints beautifully (for a
dot-matrix printer). Thanks for your quick and helpful response.
> > ...
> > I have an old, but completely functional 24 pin printer that I can't
> > get to work with ghostscript...
> >
> > I'm sure the postscript file I'm using is good because I can use the
> > X11 device and get a very nice view of the document. This also shows
> > (or seems to) that gs is properly interpreting the file and making a
> > useful conversion. The printer works fine under Windows (sorry) so I
> > know the printer is doing its job right. The only thing left is that
> > I must be using the wrong driver.
> >
> > Ideas?
--
Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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