From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 4:23:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9C437B590 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-005orportP241.dialsprint.net [63.178.69.3]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA29022; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14862; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:05 -0800 (PST) Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003300139.RAA14862@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Ronald Klop on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:42:12 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Printer compatibility Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Ronald Klop > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message