Hi,
I'm having some difficulty printing to my new printer. I have a
P2-333 based system running Debian 2.2r2, using the default
2.2.17 kernel. I recently bought an Epson Stylus Color 777 and
am trying to get it running (through the parallel port). I have
printed when booted to Win95 without problem, so I know the hardware
is fine.
I'm not yet at the stage of needing to set up lpd; I can't
directly send anything to the printer. Looking at my procfs, I have
/proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 248460 XT-PIC timer
1: 7109 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
7: 879307 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 7154 XT-PIC sym53c8xx
11: 2906 XT-PIC eth0
12: 44790 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 910 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
/proc/modules
lp 5188 0
parport_probe 3332 0
parport_pc 7236 1
parport 7280 1 [lp parport_probe parport_pc]
af_packet 6040 2 (autoclean)
ppp 20684 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4436 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
tulip 29856 1 (autoclean)
lockd 31112 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52420 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
nls_cp437 3904 2 (autoclean)
serial 19564 0 (autoclean)
sb 33396 0 (unused)
uart401 6128 0 [sb]
sound 57592 0 [sb uart401]
soundlow 416 0 [sound]
soundcore 2628 6 [sb sound]
vfat 9008 0 (unused)
hpfs 8552 0 (unused)
unix 10212 96 (autoclean)
/proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
29 fb
128 ptm
136 pts
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
7 loop
8 sd
9 md
11 sr
36 ed
65 sd
/proc/parport/0/hardware
base: 0x378
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2
/proc/parport/0/autoprobe
CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:Stylus COLOR 777;
MANUFACTURER:EPSON;
DESCRIPTION:EPSON Stylus COLOR 777;
COMMAND SET:ESCPL2,BDC,D4;
/proc/parport/0/devices
lp
/proc/parport/0/irq
7
Yet, if i simply type (as root):
cat text_file > /dev/lp0
or for that matter
cat text_file > /dev/par0
nothing happens.
I have also tried
gs @stcany.upp -dSAFER -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 ps_file -c quit
which also does nothing. Lastly, I tried to print a test page
from apsfilterconfig. It wrote the page to /tmp and sent it,
but nothing ever came out of the printer. What may I have missed?
Thanks,
Brian
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