From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 17:25:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B96514BEA for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:25:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA17497 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:25:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:25:21 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus printing problems Message-ID: <19990327192521.B17445@drwho.xnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199903271848.KAA00331@medusa.kfu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903271848.KAA00331@medusa.kfu.com>; from Nick Sayer on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 10:48:31AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 10:48:31AM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote: > If I set up lpt0, printing is perfect. If I use the above ppbus > configuration, I get garbage after anywhere from a few lines > to a quarter page goes by. This is apparently a serious problem, and people are **hopefully** looking into it (HINT HINT). I had the same experience, and after reporting it on the FreeBSD bug-reports section of their web site, someone mailed me a tip that *helped* (but not *cured*) the problem. In your kernel configuration: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 controller ppbus0 device nlpt0 at ppbus? Note the "tty" on the first device line. You probably have "net" there right now, right? Well, I honestly don't know what that means, but changing it to "tty" has helped the printing problem. I can print Postscript (using Ghostscript) without problems. This is OK for me since PS is about all I print anyhow (normally, I print plain text with "a2ps" as filter). But printing plain text by itself still has a few problems... the error light comes on the printer, paper doesn't feed right, and characters get dropped sometimes. My printer, BTW, is an HP Deskjet 672c. -- Michael Maxwell | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron." --M. Maxwell (1999) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message