IB. wrote:
charles norwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
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Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in
the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going
on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which doesn't
sound like having the wrong PPD file.
Oh--another thing is that since upgrading to Sarge and 2.6.8
(2.6.8-2-k7-smp), trying to print occasionally hangs the entire system.
That suggests a problem with the parallel port driver or something
closer to that later.
Daniel
I don't have an answer, but my experience is "random" errors are due to
hardware failing.
No, I'm pretty sure it's not failing hardware: The hardware worked fine
with Woody, kernel 2.4, and the pre-CUPs printing system. And it still
works fine when I boot into Windows and print.
I found the technical problem. As I hypothesized, it was a problem with
the kernel in the parallel port driver. CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO was
enabled.
The fact that CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is experimental leads to another
question: Why the hell did a Debian kernel for the _stable_ release (Sarge)
use an _experimental_ kernel option?!
Daniel
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