Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:53:54 -0300 (EST) From: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria <rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br> To: gubarev@mppmu.mpg.de (Dr. F. Gubarev) Cc: rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppbus broken in 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <199905121453.LAA18006@protheus.ravel.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990512161201.25749B-100000@pcl153.mppmu.mpg.de> from "Dr. F. Gubarev" at "May 12, 99 04:19:57 pm"
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Dr. F. Gubarev was saying that,
^
^ On Wed, 12 May 1999, 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.
^
^ I had the same problem upgrading 2.2.8S->3.1R. The problem appears to be
^ in the line:
^
^ device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7
^ ^^^^^
^ If "tty" is changed to "net" (as it was in GENERIC, if I remember) then
^ printer begins print some garbage ... Check that this flag is indeed
^ "tty", should work perfectly after that.
That seems to be problem.
It is working fine now.
Thanks.
^
^ Regards, Gubarev Fedor.
^
Rodolfo H G Faria
<rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br>
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