I have an HP Deskjet 895 with USB and parallel cables attached
simultaneously. Works fine but when I print from Win98 thru the USB
cable and then reboot to linux and try to use the parallel cable
connection, the printer must be powered off before I attempt any printer
access or I have to reboot again after cycling the printer power to make
the printer work with linux.
Tom
Norman Carver wrote:
>
> Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem
> appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel
> cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem
> with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no
> output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried
> disconnecting this cable and rebooting before (without
> success), we may not have shut printer down in between
> as we did this time. So usb cable has been removed.
> Still a bit hard to understand how this can be the issue.
> If the Epson works fine with both attached in Win98, why
> won't it work under Linux?
>
> Anyway, my friends setup is a bit closer. Now if we can
> just get X configured nicely for his Rage Pro Turbo.
> He is getting ghosting, which I gather implies improper
> settings. Perhaps will post on this later if we cannot
> make progress.
>
> Thanks,
> Norm Carver
