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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!nntp.mainstreet.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!sloth.swcp.com!not-for-mail From: crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Printer Problem -- Oops! recovery Date: 8 Mar 1997 16:09:37 -0700 Organization: Just me, Los Alamos, NM Lines: 174 Message-ID: <5fsrjh$lb@quail.swcp.com> Reply-To: crs@swcp.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lappp11.swcp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36794 First, I'm way behind in reading news so, it it isn't too much trouble, I'll appreciate if you will Cc: of any responses to crs@swcp.com just to be sure that I don't lose any among all the messages that I haven't read yet on the news group. I'm Cc:'ing this to questions@freebsd.org because and earlier query there didn't contain as much information as I've gathered into this post. I have a problem with an HP DeskJet 600C that was working until yesterday. Background: When I first began setting the printer up (on FreeBSD 2.1.0, later 2.1.5) I had a problem with it being *very* slow. A query to the net provided the information that it doesn't work properly with an interrupt-driven lpt port so I switched to polled mode and it's been working OK. I wrote a very simple input filter script using the information in the handbook and it has been able to handle ordinary text files and postscript using ghostscript (albeit, in the later case, the fonts leave something to be desired). Until now. :( Yesterday, I tried to print two files, both simple text files. The first printed; the second did not. The following error message was printed to the console window: pid 96 (lpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 The printer still works under W95. I've been told that W95 and its ilk don't use as much of a device's capabilities as does FreeBSD but I don't know what FBSD uses that W95 does not so it's difficult to know where to look. The system uses an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 mother board (at least that's what the mother-board manual says), Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter, etc. (see appended dmesg output). The dmesg output will show a second parallel port--an experiment with a very old borrowed I/O board, the only thing I could find, but even W95 didn't like that one--complained about being unable to establish bidirectional communication--so that didn't tell me anything. I thought that if it worked it would indicate a problem with the on-board parallel port but no help there. Here are some of the things I've looked at: PC% ps -agx | grep lpd 94 ?? IWs 0:00.03 lpd PC% PC% dmesg | tail -1 pid 96 (lpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 PC% PC% lpq Warning: no daemon present Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st crs 409 apt.info 1409 bytes 2nd crs 410 (standard input) 8792 bytes PC% PC% lpc status lp lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 2 entries in spool area no daemon present PC% PC% sudo lpc restart lp Password: lp: no daemon to abort lp: daemon started PC% lpc status lp lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 2 entries in spool area no daemon present PC% Here's dmesg's output: FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 29 17:18:59 MST 1996 crs@quail.swcp.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL.CRS CPU: 120-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x526 Stepping=6 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) avail memory = 14811136 (14464K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 <Intel 82439> rev 1 on pci0:0 chip1 <Intel 82371 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 1 on pci0:7:0 chip2 <Intel 82371 Bus-Master IDE controller> rev 0 on pci0:7:1 vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq ?? on pci0:10 ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc0:0:0): "IBM DORS-32160 WA0A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:1:0): "SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.1c" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:1:0): CD-ROM cd0(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 cd0(ahc0:1:0): Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed cd present.[400000 x 2048 byte records] ahc0:A:4: refuses syncronous negotiation. Using asyncronous transfers (ahc0:4:0): "ARCHIVE VIPER 150 20000 -000" type 1 removable SCSI 1 st0(ahc0:4:0): Sequential-Access st0: Archive Viper 150 is a known rogue density code 0x0, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2: disabled, not probed. sio3: disabled, not probed. lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa lpt1 at 0x278-0x27f on isa psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa sbxvo0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa <SoundBlaster MPU-401> opl0 at 0x388 on isa opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> pid 96 (lpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 223 (lpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 And here's what's in /var/log/lpd-errs: PC% !page page /var/log/lpd-errs Mar 7 10:23:16 quail lpd[94]: restarted Mar 7 10:33:02 quail lpd[94]: restarted Mar 7 11:25:35 quail lpd[94]: restarted Mar 7 16:07:02 quail lpd[564]: restarted Mar 7 16:22:37 quail lpd[92]: restarted Mar 7 16:29:47 quail lpd[92]: restarted Mar 7 22:53:50 quail lpd[94]: restarted Mar 8 11:53:25 quail lpd[94]: restarted Mar 8 11:56:42 quail lpd[92]: restarted Mar 8 13:15:35 quail lpd[94]: restarted PC% -- Best regards, Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!" crs@swcp.com www.swcp.com/~crs Life Member since 1965