Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 May 1996 13:33:12 -0400 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: 1.3.98 and printer |
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Ronald Wahl wrote:
| Hi, | | There seems to be a bug in the lp module of 1.3.98. I get only a "printer | off-line" message. If I switch to 1.3.97 it will work perfectly.
I get a somewhat different set of symptoms. I have an Epson Color Stylus printer (the original, about 1 year old) hooked to my home machine through the parallel port. I brought up 1.3.98, and now see that /var/log/messages, has lots of printer off-line messages, as I print netscape pages (via ghostscript lpr filter). I suspect the printer is using the off-line bit to flow control the host. Maybe, the kernel should only report the error if there has been no response, in say 5 minutes.
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