Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:54:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Is printing broke on sparc ? |
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Hello All , On Linux-Sparc I can send data to the /dev/par0 & /dev/lp0 but the data appears to be garbled .
Sending the below printcap to either of the above ports ... <begin printcap> # /etc/printcap # # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! # Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format! # Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info. # # This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL POSTSCRIPT 300x300 letter {} PostScript Default {} lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: <end printcap>
.. ie: cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0 (or /dev/par0) gets me :
/c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn s eehpo o-.ROLPR0 roif{\=sl:x /p:ao/lr which is where it rolls off the paper . printer is a DECLaser 2200 . I have the PostScript option card for it , but when it is installed -notthing- gets output so I tried the above experiment without it installed . With the option installed the display shows 'PS Waiting' Then shortly 'PS Processing' then 'PS Ready' . This happens whether I cat .ps files or not . I beleive that something is garbling the data being sent .
I did have this running quite well off of a i386 running linux not to long ago . So I have to be doing something wrong .
ANy help appreciated . Tia , JimL
Options turned on in the .config
CONFIG_PARPORT=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
# dmesg | grep -b1 par
1135-Starting kswapd v1.8 1156:parport0: sunbpp at 0x1ffec800000 1190:parport0: cpp_mux: aa55f00f52ad51(18) 1228:parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) 1262:parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) 1299:parport0: cpp_mux: aa55f00f52ad51(98) 1337:parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) 1371:parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) 1408-Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x54 -- 1527-pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured 1559:lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). 1599-block: queued sectors max/low 203466kB/72394kB, 640 slots per queue
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