Re: printing on sparc
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: > I have some news. After sending some text to the printer (DEskJet > 720C) the sun halted but then I unplugged the printer cable from the > sun it came alive again. So it seems a hardware problem ? > Is there a similar printer port on the Ultra 10? It looks similar to > the PC's. Just for reference, I just had success with an old Apple LaserWriter (Postscript) on the parallel port on an Ultra 1 running 2.2.17. (This printer probably doesn't tax the bi-directional capabilities of the port very much, however:-). Had I a nice DeskJet around, I'd try that, but there are none around. Here's what I did. I don't know if all these are necessary, but life is short so I haven't tried all exhaustive combinations. MAKEDEV lp MAKEDEV parport And then in /etc/modules I added bpp parport After that, /dev/lp0 worked. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Re: printing on sparc
Hi, This printer speaks PPA unfortunatelly. But there's a filter pnm2ppa earlier called pbm2ppa which works under i386. I'll look at the sun pages. Gabor Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:33:02 +0900 From: Ragga Muffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Dispatcher: imput version 2414(IM141) Hmm... ok, you have an ultra which is a totally different beast than the Sparc 5 and has it's own kernel tree It might be worthwhile to search www.sunhelp.com for the parallel port specs. It sounds reasonable to assume the HP720 would work at least using lpd, since there are filters that speak PCL... I'll try to find a parallel printer and play with it a bit tomorrow to find out if the parallel port on older sparcs is usable. Hejdo, Ragga
Re: printing on sparc
Gabor Zoltan Csejtey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Hi, > > I have some news. After sending some text to the printer (DEskJet > 720C) the sun halted but then I unplugged the printer cable from the > sun it came alive again. So it seems a hardware problem ? > Is there a similar printer port on the Ultra 10? It looks similar to > the PC's. > I used modprobe parport_ax and modprobe lp to get access to the > /dev/lp0 Hmm... ok, you have an ultra which is a totally different beast than the Sparc 5 and has it's own kernel tree It might be worthwhile to search www.sunhelp.com for the parallel port specs. It sounds reasonable to assume the HP720 would work at least using lpd, since there are filters that speak PCL... I'll try to find a parallel printer and play with it a bit tomorrow to find out if the parallel port on older sparcs is usable. Hejdo, Ragga
Re: printing on sparc
Hi, I have some news. After sending some text to the printer (DEskJet 720C) the sun halted but then I unplugged the printer cable from the sun it came alive again. So it seems a hardware problem ? Is there a similar printer port on the Ultra 10? It looks similar to the PC's. I used modprobe parport_ax and modprobe lp to get access to the /dev/lp0 To Ragga: I'm using 2.2.17 kernel from Debian 2.2r0 and sun4u Ultra 10 with PCI bus. I'm tried the bpp module with the stock kernel: ~# insmod bpp Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters and ~# modprobe bpp /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bpp.o: insmod bpp failed modprobe parport_ax modprobe lp works but then I have the problem with the printer. To Jean-Paul Blaquiere I tried printing through the lpr daemon as well. Gabor
Re: printing on sparc
Jean-Paul Blaquiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> modprobe parport_ax >> modprobe lp What kernel and arch is this ? >hmmm as no one else has answered >have you tried printing through the lpr daemon? >Or tried insmod'ing parport first as well. The sparclinux has no such options, at least not in kernels above 2.2.13 (the first kernel I installed on a sparc 5). The parallel port support is called "Sparc Bidirectional Parallel Port" and the module to load is bpp. A successful insmod should give you bpp in /proc/ioports and /proc/devices. However, I gave up on the parallel printer because it turned out it wouldn't even do a self-test page :( So now I use a network printer and can't give a success story, sorry. Greetings, Ragga
Re: printing on sparc
Hi, I sent a mail earlier this day to the debian-sparc list. Haven't you read it? I have problems with printing too. I didn't have /dev/lp* after installing Debian 2.2r0. Gabor Here's the mail: From: Gabor Zoltan Csejtey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Printing on Ultra 10 Resent-From: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/5642 X-Loop: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to install a printer to my Sparc machine. su cd /dev MAKEDEV lp modprobe parport_ax modprobe lp cat something.txt > /dev/lp0 and the machine hangs up, I can use only STOP-A to reboot. What is the problem? Where can I find info about printing on SparcLinux? Gabor PS. The printer is Deskject 720C which works from Pentium with Debian 2.2 and pbm2ppa.
Re: printing on sparc
> On Jan 18, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey scratched in indelible ink : > I sent a mail earlier this day to the debian-sparc list. Haven't you > read it? I have problems with printing too. > I didn't have /dev/lp* after installing Debian 2.2r0. > hmmm as no one else has answered have you tried printing through the lpr daemon? Or tried insmod'ing parport first as well. ppl, is it compiled into the kernel by default? > su > cd /dev > MAKEDEV lp > > modprobe parport_ax > modprobe lp > > cat something.txt > /dev/lp0 > > What is the problem? Where can I find info about printing on SparcLinux? > apt-get install lprng then /usr/doc/lprng/LPRng-HOWTO.html and apt-get install doc-linux-text gives you all the HOWTOs. then /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Printing-Usage-HOWTO.txt.gz /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.aan.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert
