Re: Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS

From: Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:38:54 +0200
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:39:12AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I posted this in April and received no response.  However, this has been an
> ongoing issue since at least 2001 (where I found the first reference to this
> trouble via Google).
> 
> The problem seems to be that the FreeBSD USB LPT driver (even with no-reset)
> is somehow dropping the first bits of the data stream, causing a page full
> of trash to be printed prior to the actual print job.  I have no verified
> this problem with 5.1-RELEASE as well.
> 
> ----
> 
> I have a machine that has been serving as a print server.  That machine was
> running CUPS and SAMBA over Linux.  Now, it is running FreeBSD
> 5.0-RELEASE-p7 with CUPS and SAMBA.  I have a Lexmark Optra 312 laser
> printer hooked up to the usb port, ulpt0 (no reset).  When it was running
> linux, everything ran perfectly.  I allow the Windows client machines to use
> their print drivers and send a raw stream through samba to cups for
> printing.  This configuration has worked fine.  However, for reasons of my
> own, I have put FreeBSD 5.0 on this machine.  The same software
> configuration exists for printing.  Now, when I print most pages, I get an
> extra page prefixing the job with two or three lines of printer commands
> (i.e. resolution = 600, _at_PCL, etc).  This seems to be caused by the FreeBSD
> usb printer driver dropping a couple of characters at the beginning of the
> command stream.  This used to happen to me with FreeBSD 4.6 as well, which
> is why that machine was running Linux in the first place.  Has anybody seen
> this strange behavior and is there a known fix for it?

I can reproduce it localy with -current, but have no fix.
I thought that I had found the reason a few days ago, but murphy
teached me better :(
There is a bug in signal handling, but that's not our problem here.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso_at_bwct.de                                  info_at_bwct.de
Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 06:39:03 UTC

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