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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:26:34 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Ranko Sredojevic <surija@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: directions
Message-ID:  <20051127222634.GB97673@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <21bc91010511271210k35ccd954ic16d168e8c6d155a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <21bc91010511271031y6357b2f0ue2891afbe71b83f4@mail.gmail.com> <20051127184612.GA93799@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <21bc91010511271210k35ccd954ic16d168e8c6d155a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 03:10:29PM -0500, Ranko Sredojevic wrote:

> Any ideas on lpd/lpq problem? I sent various things out to print... More =
or
> less succesfully... :\
> I use the simplest filter: cat, trying to send .ps to the printer. Someti=
mes
> it prints the whole
> document... sometimes just part of it... (for longer ones) I haven't mana=
ged
> to get more
> than 8 pages (4 sheets) in one print? Any ideas?

Is it a parallel port printer? If so, set your parallel port into
polling mode: lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0.ctl

If that works, set the following in /boot/device.hints:

hint.ppc.0.flags=3D"0x20"

and it will be put into polling mode at boot.

Roland
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