Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer compatibility Message-ID: <200003300139.RAA14862@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003300237270.588-100000@tulip100.evertsen.nl> (message from Ronald Klop on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:42:12 %2B0200 (CEST))
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> From: Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> > > Maybe it is something with the interupt-driven/polled printer port. See > the mailarchive on www.freebsd.org/search for more info on this. See also > 'man lpt' and 'man lptcontrol'. > I had similar problems once, but I don't know if they have the same > reason. Because you don't send any info about your configuration (ports in > kernel) in your e-mail. > ... I am both grateful and a little embarrassed. I would have checked the archives except that as I tested it, it seemed to be a ghostscript problem, not a FreeBSD problem. I assumed the parallel port *must* be fine as it works great under that other O/S. I never thought of the port driver. Anyway, I set it in polling mode and it prints beautifully (for a dot-matrix printer). Thanks for your quick and helpful response. > > ... > > I have an old, but completely functional 24 pin printer that I can't > > get to work with ghostscript... > > > > I'm sure the postscript file I'm using is good because I can use the > > X11 device and get a very nice view of the document. This also shows > > (or seems to) that gs is properly interpreting the file and making a > > useful conversion. The printer works fine under Windows (sorry) so I > > know the printer is doing its job right. The only thing left is that > > I must be using the wrong driver. > > > > Ideas? -- Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software <bduk@earthlink.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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