Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 01:23:31 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: "Park, No Il" <No.Il.Park@kla-tencor.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lexmark 1100 Printer problem Message-ID: <199908061553.BAA15375@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <C3DBC21A216DD1118BDD0060B058DDBF5DFD55@korexchange1.kla-tencor.com> from "Park, No Il" at "Aug 5, 1999 09:39:34 pm"
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> Thanks about your answer. But I did that already. I say my problem again. > I made kernel for printer following the procedure on book, 'The complete > Free BSD by Greg Lehey' and Man page about 'ppc,ppbus' > My configuration of printer is (ver. 3.2 of FreeBSD) : > device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 > controller ppbus0 > lpt0 at ppbus? > > I checked these ones on the dmesg after booting the system. > > Tried to test printer with lptest like 'lptest > /dev/lpt0' > Printer made big noise and hang-up. > On the screen showed like : > #>lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > <-- no answer and big noise but sometimes print > working > in the right edge side. Did not go center. > > [ctrl]+c > #>lptest > /dev/lpt0 > busy > > Usually, Symptom is > -Do not working anything. > -Working but no output and Head of printer is moving withine small length > at > right edge side. Also No feed paper out. > > I am tired to set up printer with FreeBSD. Pls Tell me what is solution or > document to solve this problem. Unfortunately there is no solution. It hasn't got to do with the printer being detected or building another kernel, your problem is that the Lexmark 1100 uses a proprietary protocol that noone has reverse engineered into a driver for Ghostscript yet. Essentially, under any Unix you like to name, your printer is currently a paperweight. There is someone working on drivers for the Lexmark printers but only the 5700 and 7000 are currently supported. If you are interested in helping, the web page is at http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/ -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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