From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 12:30:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C2E16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:30:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFF343D55 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:30:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp219-232.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.219.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8RCUI5B041520 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:00:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: stanley jobson Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:00:07 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509260849.50510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050927102636.22f39e53.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050927102636.22f39e53.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509272200.08853.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:30:28 -0000 --nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:56, stanley jobson wrote: > > It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the > > printer is very very special.. > > > > What sort of printer is it? > > its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :) Hmm, well lots of printers these days are raster only.. I'd recommend buying an Epson since they are usually more functional than= =20 Canon in !Win32. > > You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY > > for the open. > > one can print using lpt0.ctl? - thx 4 the hint - i'll check this ... Well, I'm pretty sure you can. AFAIK the only difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontr= ol=20 can use it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDOTtQ5ZPcIHs/zowRAnbUAKCMMISUbGw54g1FkiJfgmy2Mo8w/QCfWLG2 ExqBy3lzx27vvrzFDwO63u0= =qTmf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV--