Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:04:26 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour... Message-ID: <200707101404.l6AE4VVo023496@eunet.yu> In-Reply-To: <20070710134134.GD61945@dell1> References: <20070710134134.GD61945@dell1>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:41:34 -0400 William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote: > According to Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>: > >=20 > > Do you have any ulpt0 configuration in /etc/rc.local? If the printer > > port is interrupt-driven, try polled standard mode, i.e. add > >=20 > > lptcontrol -p -d /dev/[printer-port] > >=20 > > to your /etc/rc.local. The kind of behaviour you described can > > occur in the interrupt mode (including cutting pages, printing them > > in chunks, etc.). > >=20 > > Also try to switch the printer to the parallel port; if both can > > serve the printer, I'd always use the parallel one. > >=20 > > If this doesn't help, please post here the content of > > your /etc/printcap and 'dmesg | grep ulpt0'. >=20 > I have no /etc/rc.local file on this machine. >=20 > Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't lptcontrol(8) deal > with the parallel port printer? I have USB connected. > Parallel port connection is unfeasible in my situation. Yes, of course, sorry; I badly mixed paragraphs of my reply, my answer was intented to be a recommendation to switch to parallel port and then to try polled mode. > > "content of your /etc/printcap": >=20 > lp|default|hp|HP|ps|PS|Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1320 PostScript > Printer:\ :sh:\ > :lp=3D/dev/ulpt0:\ > :sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/hp:\ > :lf=3D/var/log/lpd-errs:\ > :mx#0: (Unrelated, do you have any special reason you don't have 'if' configured?) > > 'dmesg | grep ulpt0': >=20 > ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr > 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode > ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 5) disconnected > ulpt0: detached > ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr > 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode > ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 5) disconnected > ulpt0: detached > ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr > 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode > ulpt0: offline > ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 5) disconnected > ulpt0: detached > ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr > 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Well, try parallel port if you can; that is the simple way I resolved many painful printing problems in the past. I'd also try using print/apsfilter to configure printcap. Then you should surely know if it's a usb port issue. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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