Hello folks. My logs are showing lp0 to be on fire. This is an Epson Stylus Color 480. It behaved oddly last time I printed something - a few weeks back. It was a fairly large print job, which it refused to touch only to print the lot out the next time I booted. Thereafter it refused to print anything.
I'm using Woody. After googling lots and playing some, and getting nowhere, I decided to do a knoppix hd install on a spare hard drive, to see if I could rule a printer hardware problem out. Sadly the hardware problem possibility now seems to be ruled in, as the logs in the knoppix install agree that lp0 is on fire. I left the printer disconnected for a while to see if the problem would clear, but it didn't. I'll perhaps leave the cable out overnight, just on the off-chance. When I fiddle with the CUPS admin routine through my browser I can sometimes get the printer to clear its throat and shuffle its shoulders (which it also still does when I switch it on) but then it falls silent. It won't print anything. The jobs are queued, and the parallel port claims to be busy (trying again in thirty seconds). When I cancel the jobs and switch the printer off and on through admin the printer is shown to be idle - but it still won't print. tunelp /dev/lp0 gives the IRQ as -1, which seemed odd to me, but as polling is being used perhaps this is right? The cable looks okay. Both ends are attached to something, one of which is the printer. I wondered initially whether it was perhaps simply out of ink, but Escputil won't run - when I try to do anything at all, declaring the raw device, Escputil hangs. Somewhere I came across ps aux | grep root and then kill -9 anything odd and printer-related: there was stuff to kill, but it never solved the problem. So: Does the fact that the problem occurs with two different installs mean that it is definitely hardware related, or is there another possibility? I wish I had another machine or another printer or even another printer cable so that I could narrow things down a bit. I'll probably end up buying a cable then a printer and then discover the motherboard is beginning to fail or something. I'm using the latest 2.4.18-1-k6 kernel image on the Woody, although I doubt it matters. Any advice please? lpinfo -v -l gives the following: network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct epson:/dev/lp0 direct parallel:/dev/lp0 serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp0 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp1 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp2 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp3 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp15 Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
