From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 18: 5:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from listsvr2.telepac.pt (mail8.telepac.pt [194.65.3.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A481937B6AD for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpedras@webvolution.net) Received: from manecao.tafkap.priv ([194.65.203.108]) by listsvr2.telepac.pt (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id pt for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 02:08:43 +0100 Content-Length: 2047 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 02:05:38 +0100 (BST) From: Joao Pedras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: printing problems ? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Since I moved from 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable, I am having serious problems when it comes to printing. I have a HP2100M (postscript). It has printed everythin I throw at it, with no problems. Since 4.0-s I have noticed the following : - sometimes without any explanation, the printer just keeps blinking, as if it was going to print something (lpq confirms there is queued stuff) and it stays there for a very long time until the printing comes out; it doesn't matter if it is an image or a 2 line ascii file - other times the behaviour is normal - when the problem happens I HAVE to restart the system as I didn't find any other way to have printing behaviour in it's normal condition. I tried to erase all jobs (success always here), kill lpd and starting it again - nothing of this works, only restarting the system :( I thought it could be something with lpd, so I installed LPRng. The problem's the same. Today I even tried other modes with lptcontrol (-e for instance) and I got a reset from the system when I sent something to the printer, as if I pressed the reset button. hooowwwww Other times lptcontrol complained that the device was busy, even after killing lpd and all that. What could be wrong here ? I didn't change the configuration when I moved to 4. Maybe I should have done something. What did I miss ? I am not saying this is a problem since 4. Only seemed to happen since then. Printing here is quite heavy and something like this would have been noticed. Tkx for your help. Joao ^\ /^ O O ----------------------------------------o00-(_)-00o-------------------------- F: When into a room I plunge, I Sometimes find some VIOLET FUNGI. Then I linger, darkly brooding On the poison they're exuding. -- The Roguelet's ABC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP key available upon request or may be cut at http://www.pedras.webvolution.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message