From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 0:19:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EC437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAT8RAF28445; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011290827.eAT8RAF28445@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Rink Springer" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:03:10 +0100." <002501c05a3f$661251d0$020010ac@aurum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:27:10 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > However, whenever I try to print some image that is about 1MB in the print > queue, the printer prints a small part, and the rest will not be printed. In > fact, the entire queue entry is gone! > > Does anyone know what has caused this? I noticed some stray IRQ 7's, but > even if I enable polling mode (using lptcontrol -p), it doesn't work. I need > to get this printer working soon. It worked fine using RedHat Linux 6.1. Sounds like you're overflowing the printer's buffer. When you say "it worked fine" under RedHat, did you actually attempt to print a large job? The queue entry is "gone" because it's all been sent to the printer. I suspect that you may need to enable "banding" mode in your printer driver, or similar. It's hard to guess, but you can be fairly certain that FreeBSD isn't just "dropping" your print job (especially if the page feeds correctly at the end). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message