The printer is an old HP DeskJet 820C Winprinter http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_820C that works well on the same box in Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Official.
I have cups installed and running, have the ppd file from linuxprinting.org and can get onto the cups admin interface ok. I have configured the printer using both cups and apsfilter.
and have gone through the printing section of the handbook, and Dru's recent article on unix printing on Onlamp.com. I've also searched and searched google and this mailing list, havent found anything yet. Also read Mike Lucas' article on apsfilter.
The kernel detects the port and the printer fine. dmesg shows:
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/15 bytes threshold ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 820C> SCP,VLINK
I've set the perms on the lpt0 to:
crw-r-xr-x 1 root wheel 16, 0 Nov 15 21:27 /dev/lpt0
When printing a cups test page, nothing happens, meaning, no printing occurs. Cups shows the job "aborted". the cups logs show nothing.
When printing an apsfilter test page, the system crashes, meaning, it freezes solid. I have to do a hard reboot.
when I try running # lptest > dev/lpt0, nothing happens from the printer. I get no error messages.
I've run out of ideas, other than replacing this (perfectly useable) boat anchor.
--karl
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