Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-03-01 Thread David Gilbert
> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Souchu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:42:39PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote: >> >> >> For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my >> system. Nicolas> Would you mind trying this patch before I send it to Jordan? I certainl

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-02-02 Thread Brian Dean
This patch fixes the problem for me. Thanks!!! -Brian > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:42:39PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote: > > > > > >For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my system. > > Would you mind trying this patch before I send it to Jordan? > > Index: lpt.c >

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-02-02 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:42:39PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote: > > >For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my system. Would you mind trying this patch before I send it to Jordan? Index: lpt.c === RCS file: /home/ncv

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-31 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:38:57PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >> "Michael" == Michael Remski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Michael> ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa ppc0: SMC-like chipset >Michael> (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with >Michael> 16/16/7 bytes thresho

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread David Gilbert
> "Michael" == Michael Remski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa ppc0: SMC-like chipset Michael> (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with Michael> 16/16/7 bytes threshold lpt0: on ppbus 0 Michael> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port I don't get

Re: Printer fiascos

2000-01-30 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
> For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my system. > Simply submit something to lpr, wait for the printer light to blink, > and pull the paper tray. The system hangs hard as described and does > not return to normal until the paper tray is put back in. I haven't > been able

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Michael Remski
This is on 3.4 Stable, Another "me too", BUT, with a "data point". NEC SuperScript 870, ASUS MB. Had the same problem when the BIOS was set to ECP+EPP on the parallel port. Sinces it only a printer, I set the BIOS to Normal and deliberately tried to introduce the problem (pull paper tray, etc).

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Brian Dean
For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my system. Simply submit something to lpr, wait for the printer light to blink, and pull the paper tray. The system hangs hard as described and does not return to normal until the paper tray is put back in. I haven't been able to make i

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:21:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >When the new parallel port stuff was put several months ago, my >machine stopped working. I had to set flags to 0x40 to make it >work again. Flags of 0x40 force the driver to use the most >basic probes possible.

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:59:15PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >> "Chris" == Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Chris> On Saturday, January 29, 2000, David Gilbert wrote: >>> When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds >>> the printer --- the momment it start

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 09:49:40PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > >On Saturday, January 29, 2000, David Gilbert wrote: >> When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds the >> printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer >> unfreezes. > > Could it be a printe

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: > When the new parallel port stuff was put several months ago, my > machine stopped working. I had to set flags to 0x40 to make it > work again. Flags of 0x40 force the driver to use the most > basic probes possible. It was put in because a number of peopl

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chuck Robey wrote: > > Sheesh. This is a FreeBSD-questions type thing, not current. I disagree. It is obvious that something is getting locked inside the kernel in his setup. This *SHOULDN'T* happen, it's that simple. If his machine locked whenever the printer went out of paper, and *stayed* lo

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread Chuck Robey
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

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread David Gilbert
> "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. Sea

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
When the new parallel port stuff was put several months ago, my machine stopped working. I had to set flags to 0x40 to make it work again. Flags of 0x40 force the driver to use the most basic probes possible. It was put in because a number of people's machines stopped worki

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread David Gilbert
> "Chris" == Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> On Saturday, January 29, 2000, David Gilbert wrote: >> When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds >> the printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer >> unfreezes. Chris>Could it be a

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread Chris Costello
On Saturday, January 29, 2000, David Gilbert wrote: > When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds the > printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer > unfreezes. Could it be a printer-specific (or printer-compatibility) problem? My HP DeskJet 880C does

Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread David Gilbert
Why is it that a properly functioning printer is such a moving target in FreeBSD? I don't mean to be argumentative, but under 3.x, the magic cookie to make printers work (it appeared to be a flow control problem) was to change device ppc0at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 to devi