From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 0:21:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from minerva.springer.cx (cgmd77002.chello.nl [212.83.77.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F77537B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4499 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 09:18:56 -0000 Received: from aurum.rinkspringer.org (HELO aurum) (172.16.0.2) by minerva.springer.cx with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 09:18:56 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c05a41$f0249fc0$020010ac@aurum> From: "Rink Springer" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <200011290827.eAT8RAF28445@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" To: "Rink Springer" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:27 AM Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help > 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? Yup, I did, and it worked nicely. > > The queue entry is "gone" because it's all been sent to the printer. Ah... but why doesn't the printer do it then? > > 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). And have you any idea how? The paper just remains stuck into the printer, as if the printer keeps waiting for data. Help! Thanks, --Rink > > -- > ... 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