Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:22:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer fiascos. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001300014540.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <14483.51219.699735.212358@trooper.velocet.net>
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Sean" == Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> writes: > > Sean> On 2000 Jan 29, David Gilbert opined: > >> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> writes: > >> > Sean> lptcontrol -p > >> I will try this. It still seems that there's a misfeature that it > >> just doesn't work by default. > > Sean> Yep. It is odd that it completely locks your box waiting for > Sean> paper. I have seen other printers which end up printing garbage > Sean> after this but never a locked box. And notice it's not for everyone. I don't know why yours locks up and mine doesn't, but my printer, in the last month, has begun to occaisonally fail to pick up a sheet of paper. It stops the print, but nothing worse than that. I haven't really investigated it, and for me, since I don't see your problem, the fix is a couple of suitably applied alcohol wipes, probably. What I'm saying is, don't start trying to over-generalize your problem. It'll make it harder for you to find, and give FreeBSD an unnecessarily bad rep over that. BTW, that lptcontrol -p means you have something wrong with your parallel interface, because it's not responding to interrupts. This often means you have some IO card you forgot (like a sound card) sitting unbeknownst to you on IRQ 7, messing up the printer. The -p means it just polls the printer to pass in new characters, instead of reacting by interrupt. If the -p thing works for you, I would go looking at hardware, myself. Sheesh. This is a FreeBSD-questions type thing, not current. > > That's a different problem... That problem has something to do with > flow control... and I've had that happen, too. > > Dave. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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