On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sean> On 2000 Jan 29, David Gilbert opined:
> >> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> Sean> lptcontrol -p
> >> I will try this. It still seems that there's a misfeature that it
> >> just doesn't work by default.
>
> Sean> Yep. It is odd that it completely locks your box waiting for
> Sean> paper. I have seen other printers which end up printing garbage
> Sean> after this but never a locked box.
And notice it's not for everyone. I don't know why yours locks up and
mine doesn't, but my printer, in the last month, has begun to occaisonally
fail to pick up a sheet of paper. It stops the print, but nothing worse
than that. I haven't really investigated it, and for me, since I don't
see your problem, the fix is a couple of suitably applied alcohol wipes,
probably.
What I'm saying is, don't start trying to over-generalize your
problem. It'll make it harder for you to find, and give FreeBSD an
unnecessarily bad rep over that.
BTW, that lptcontrol -p means you have something wrong with your parallel
interface, because it's not responding to interrupts. This often means
you have some IO card you forgot (like a sound card) sitting unbeknownst
to you on IRQ 7, messing up the printer. The -p means it just polls the
printer to pass in new characters, instead of reacting by interrupt. If
the -p thing works for you, I would go looking at hardware, myself.
Sheesh. This is a FreeBSD-questions type thing, not current.
>
> That's a different problem... That problem has something to do with
> flow control... and I've had that happen, too.
>
> Dave.
>
>
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Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
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