Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 20:05:49 +0100 (BST) From: Joao Pedras <jpedras@webvolution.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: printing problems Message-ID: <XFMail.000513200549.jpedras@webvolution.net>
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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
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