Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:25:21 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus printing problems Message-ID: <19990327192521.B17445@drwho.xnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199903271848.KAA00331@medusa.kfu.com>; from Nick Sayer on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 10:48:31AM -0800 References: <199903271848.KAA00331@medusa.kfu.com>
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On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 10:48:31AM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
> If I set up lpt0, printing is perfect. If I use the above ppbus
> configuration, I get garbage after anywhere from a few lines
> to a quarter page goes by.
This is apparently a serious problem, and people are **hopefully**
looking into it (HINT HINT). I had the same experience, and after
reporting it on the FreeBSD bug-reports section of their web site,
someone mailed me a tip that *helped* (but not *cured*) the problem.
In your kernel configuration:
# Parallel port
device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7
controller ppbus0
device nlpt0 at ppbus?
Note the "tty" on the first device line. You probably have "net" there
right now, right? Well, I honestly don't know what that means, but
changing it to "tty" has helped the printing problem.
I can print Postscript (using Ghostscript) without problems. This is
OK for me since PS is about all I print anyhow (normally, I print
plain text with "a2ps" as filter).
But printing plain text by itself still has a few problems... the
error light comes on the printer, paper doesn't feed right, and
characters get dropped sometimes.
My printer, BTW, is an HP Deskjet 672c.
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--M. Maxwell (1999)
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