On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:16:35PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Henry House wrote: > > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Okay, you asked for it... :) > > If you were to send ASCII text (not postscript), does it intermittantly > lose data, also?
I don't know but I will observe.
> Does it happen only before the first print job after a reboot, at the
> beginning of a random job, or randomly in the middle of any job?
It only seems to happen after the printer has just been turned on, or after
it has been on but idle for a while. I cannot recall it happening in the
middle of any job.
The Linux box that uses the printer has been up for months. But the lp
drivers are modules; perhaps that has something do do with it? I tried to
rmmod lp and rmmod segfaulted. It refuses to unload parport_pc (device or
resource busy). Here is the output of lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 2880 0 (autoclean)
isofs 17376 0 (autoclean)
loop 8624 0 (autoclean)
ide-probe-mod 7728 0 (autoclean)
ide-mod 63528 0 (autoclean) [ide-probe-mod]
soundcore 3908 0 (autoclean)
appletalk 22828 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 0 (autoclean)
vfat 9372 0 (autoclean)
fat 30008 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
floppy 45952 0 (autoclean)
nfsd 65600 32 (autoclean)
lockd 47168 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 63764 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
parport_pc 25320 1 (autoclean)
lp 0 0 (deleted)
parport 25888 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 9288 1 (autoclean)
serial 45504 1 (autoclean)
unix 15620 122 (autoclean)
Disturbing.
> Are there any other programs using the LPT port, such as drivers or other
> print-queueing programs or zip drive, etc?
No other hardware, driver, or daemon uses /dev/lp0.
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