From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 12 7:45: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C8115D97 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 07:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (stephen.tranquility.net [206.156.230.78]) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA09437; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:44:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <373993F7.4D37E7F@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:45:11 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppbus broken in 3.1-RELEASE References: <199905121347.KAA17323@protheus.ravel.ufrj.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes I had problems like that. It seems to have been fixed in STABLE. For now, I would use the depreciated lpt driver. Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria wrote: > > > > 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 -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message