Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > # /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:
> [...]
> > /c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn
> >                                     s eehpo o-.ROLPR0 roif{\=sl:x
> >                                                                  	/p:ao/lr

> This looks like characters are getting missed out, rather than
> anything getting garbled.  The above characters all appear in
> /etc/printcap in the order shown.  Obviously there isn't enough
> redundancy in /etc/printcap for the print-out to be useful despite
> that. :-)
	;-) .

> Please try adjusting the 'udelay (1)' lines in
> drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c:parport_ieee1284_write_compat to be
> larger delays (for example, try replacing the 1s with 2s, or 5s, and
> see if that makes things better).
	I am going to look and see if there might be a ioctl for that
	function .  Failing that I shall recompile the kernel with each
	of those values & test until successful or it seems futile .

> Let me know what you need to change to get it working.
> Thanks,
> Tim.
> */
		Tnx ,  JimL
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