From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 0:28:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1016737B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAT8ZrF28488; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:35:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011290835.eAT8ZrF28488@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Rink Springer" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:21 +0100." <000901c05a41$f0249fc0$020010ac@aurum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:35:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Sounds like you're overflowing the printer's buffer. When you say "it > > worked fine" under RedHat, did you actually attempt to print a large job? > Yup, I did, and it worked nicely. Then I'd suggest that if you can't debug this, you go back to RedHat. If it does the job, etc... > > The queue entry is "gone" because it's all been sent to the printer. > Ah... but why doesn't the printer do it then? There are any number of reasons; printer crash, comms error, etc. > > I suspect that you may need to enable "banding" mode in your printer > > driver, or similar. It's hard to guess, but you can be fairly certain > > that FreeBSD isn't just "dropping" your print job (especially if the page > > feeds correctly at the end). > And have you any idea how? The paper just remains stuck into the printer, as > if the printer keeps waiting for data. Well, that's an entirely different failure mode, and it looks like you're not getting all the data out to the printer. I don't have any ideas at this point; there are a lot of possibilities and you'll have to sort through them one at a time. eg. print to a file and then print the file on the BSD box using lpr. Does it all print? If so, you have issues with Samba. If not, you have issues with lpr/lpd/printer comms. And so forth... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message