Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:23:59 -0500 From: "Glenn and Cindy Scherb" <gcscherb@att.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd@aphroland.org Subject: RE: CUPS & Parallel port printing - how ? Message-ID: <3CEE22CF.15155.B1D76B@localhost>
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Nate, You may need to change the parallel port mode from interrupt-driven to polled. As root: 'lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0' (use the device appropriate for your setup). You may need to stop the queue first. Ciao, Glenn -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd- questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:17 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CUPS & Parallel port printing - how ? I've run out of ideas. and about out of hair. no matter what I do I cannot get CUPS to recognize the parallel port for my printer(Epson C80). I had it working at one point(for quite a while, and i haven't rebooted since then ..). but last week for some reason it got REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALY slow. slow as in 1 page of plain text per 20 minutes of printing. the printer's ink thing would go accross the page once every 10 seconds or so. So i decided to try to install a new ghostscript to see if that may speed things up, there is a new one on linuxprinting.org that was partially funded by epson so i had hoped it would improve performance. but of course then i lost the parallel port option in cups, in the WWW UI the Parallel port setting just isn't there anymore, if I try to add it via the command line it says something like client error - not possible or something. It gives me the port options of serial1/serial2 lpd, http and ipp I believe, and USB too, just no parallel. I have 2 existing printers configured to use parallel ports, from the other version of cups/ghostscript but when i try to do anything with them i get the client error -- not possible again. I removed that version of ghostscript, ran cvsup on my ports and reinstall gnu ghostscript, same thing, removed & reinstalled cups, same thing. no matter what i do I can't configure it to print to the parallel port. what tells cups what ports are available? I am running Freebsd 4.4 on a dual P2- 450 with 1GB ecc ram on an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. If there is another way to print i'll try it, but from what i have read the gimp-print driver is the best for this printer. all the docs i have seen say cups should just work, i don't understand why this port would not show up as being available. my kernel is custom built, with parallel port support built into it. thanks nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Glenn Scherb gcscherb@att.net http://www.geocities.com/gcscherb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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