From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 12:42:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB0614E31 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29582; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gary Kline Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printjob.c In-Reply-To: <199905011926.MAA12513@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 May 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > Further examination of my lpr problems have turned up > some strange results. > > As root, lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > spits out essentially blank pages; it prints one test line > and quits. As myself, I run into permission problems. Sounds normal. If you have an HP printer, you're running into the classic 'stairstep' problem. Seee the Handbook section for a script to disable this. By default lpt* has permissions 700. > catting a file ( as root ) to /dev/lpt0 seems to work > in very slowmotion which would seem to indicate some screwup > in the BIOS setup. Try setting the port to polled mode: lptcontrol -i Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message