Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...

[Kiffin Gish]

Chris wrote:

>Kiffin Gish wrote:
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>>I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0.
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>>After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all
>>the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens,
>>namely:
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>>Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y
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>>Creating test page...
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>>real    0m5.208s
>>user    0m1.358s
>>sys     0m0.336s
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>>Printing test page...
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  104370928 Oct  1 17:44
>>/tmp/apsfilter1140/test_page.aps
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>>...and then nothing.
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>>the tmp-file is created but what now?
>>
>>lpd is running:
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>>kiffin at laptop$ ps -aux | grep lpd
>>root     396  0.0  0.2  1364   940  ??  Is    5:13PM   0:00.01
>>/usr/sbin/lpd
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>>Any ideas?
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>You may be having interupt storm issues.
>Try adding this to /boot/device.hints:
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>hint.ppc.0.flags="0x20"
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Tried your suggestion but still nothing.

Just out of curiosity I checked the /var/log/lpd-errs file and found this:

Oct  1 21:34:11 laptop pnm2ppa[931]: main():  Could not open PNM input file

Could that mean something?

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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands