Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS Message-ID: <20030620221423.I30278@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <00c201c3359f$016f4f10$d037630a@dh.com> References: <00c201c3359f$016f4f10$d037630a@dh.com>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I posted this in April and received no response. However, this has been an > ongoing issue since at least 2001 (where I found the first reference to this > trouble via Google). > > The problem seems to be that the FreeBSD USB LPT driver (even with no-reset) > is somehow dropping the first bits of the data stream, causing a page full > of trash to be printed prior to the actual print job. I have no verified > this problem with 5.1-RELEASE as well. FWIW, I had similar problems with USB printer and 4.7. Inserting a sleep(1) between opening the device and the first write proved to be a sufficient workaround. $.02, /Mikko
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