From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 12 6:47:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pascal.ravel.ufrj.br (pascal.ravel.ufrj.br [146.164.32.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC4814CBA for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 06:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br) Received: from protheus.ravel.ufrj.br (protheus.ravel.ufrj.br [146.164.32.67]) by pascal.ravel.ufrj.br (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA23222; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:47:11 -0300 (EST) From: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria Received: (from rodolfo@localhost) by protheus.ravel.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17323; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:47:11 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br) Message-Id: <199905121347.KAA17323@protheus.ravel.ufrj.br> Subject: ppbus broken in 3.1-RELEASE To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:47:11 -0300 (EST) Cc: macedo@ravel.ufrj.br (Sergio Ricardo Ferreira Macedo) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, We had a HP LaserJet 4 Plus printer working perfectly in a 2.2.6-STABLE system using the old lpt driver. I've changed it to a 3.1-RELEASE system and used the new ppbus driver. Then there was a problem in printing that sometimes strange characters randomly showed in the printouts, I've tryed everything from changing cables, printer memory, ghostscript version, paralel port configuration (normal, ECP, EPP), and nothing worked. Finally I've tryed reversing to the old lpt driver, and everything worked great. That seemed strange since I've already used a Canon Bubblejet printer with the ppbus in an old pre 3.0-RELEASE system, I even had a paralel Zip Drive with it. Had anyone out there the same problem ? I believe that's something really dangerous, especially since you are planning to disable permanentely the lpt driver. Rodolfo H G Faria To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message