Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:35:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Roger W." <spiffer@eclipse.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: printer problems using 3.4RC kernel Message-ID: <199912130135.RAA04626@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:19:33 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121907020.383-100000@deepthought.invalid>
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You're not clear about what you're printing, where you're printing it to, or what the actual output looks like, but these symptoms are entirely consistent with you trying to print plain text or some other encoding to the printer. You need to ensure that you're actually printing to the correct printer device. > Hello everyone, > > I've just finished cvsup'ing 3.3-stable, to bring my 3.3-Release system up > to date. Everything went fine and seems to be working except for my laser > jet printer. Its a NEC SuperScript 870 which emulates to a HPLJ IIP. The > printer gets recognized fine during bootup and everthing appears to be OK > until I try to send roughly more than 1 page of data to it. The page can > be sent by cat 'filename' | lpr, using a2ps, or just dumping from a > webpage with html, it doesn't seem to matter. What happens is I only get > a small amout of data on each page, and then the next page is sucked into > the printer and again only a small amount of data is placed on it. I am > using apsfilter as the printers textfilter. > > I compared my boot logs with the new kernel to the GENERIC 3.3R kernel I > was using previously, and there isn't a bit of difference in them. All I > did was eliminate devices that weren't getting found anyways. I'm sure it > has to do with the kernel, or its config, as if I boot off my old GENERIC > kernel my printer functions properly. > > The one thing I've noticed is when the printer is working correctly, there > is significantly more delay from when I send the printjob to the printer, > and when it starts printing. Booting off of the kernel I compiled, there > is almost no delay between when I tell the system to print, and when the > printer starts to suck in the paper and print out small portions of what > it should be printing spread out over many pages. > > If anyone else is seeing this problem and has any ideas, I would love to > hear them. > > thank you, > > Roger > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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