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Date:      Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:40:31 +0200
From:      Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl>
To:        RacerX@makeworld.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...
Message-ID:  <433EE62F.1090508@gish.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <433EB45F.9060805@makeworld.com>
References:  <433EB323.7070402@gish.demon.nl> <433EB45F.9060805@makeworld.com>

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Chris wrote:

>Kiffin Gish wrote:
>  
>
>>I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0.
>>
>>After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all
>>the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens,
>>namely:
>>
>>Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y
>>
>>Creating test page...
>>
>>real    0m5.208s
>>user    0m1.358s
>>sys     0m0.336s
>>
>>Printing test page...
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  104370928 Oct  1 17:44
>>/tmp/apsfilter1140/test_page.aps
>>
>>...and then nothing.
>>
>>the tmp-file is created but what now?
>>
>>lpd is running:
>>
>>kiffin@laptop$ ps -aux | grep lpd
>>root     396  0.0  0.2  1364   940  ??  Is    5:13PM   0:00.01
>>/usr/sbin/lpd
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You may be having interupt storm issues.
>Try adding this to /boot/device.hints:
>
>hint.ppc.0.flags="0x20"
>
>
>  
>
Tried your suggestion but still nothing.

Just out of curiosity I checked the /var/log/lpd-errs file and found this:

Oct  1 21:34:11 laptop pnm2ppa[931]: main():  Could not open PNM input file

Could that mean something?

-- 
Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands




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