[hpoj-devel] no end of trouble

[Carlos P. <cp...@ro...>]

hi, i keep on having trouble with ptal-printd.
any help and ideas appreciated.

i have an hp officejet g55. scanning works quite fine.

printing and ptal-printd is another matter.
first it crashes every so often and have to restart it by hand,
thus it seems that it needs a loop around it (to
be a real daemon :-). or run from inetd or something.

second, about 1/2 of the time,
it seems to print, and at some point (most of
the time 3/4ths down the first page), it prints one line
of garbage.

i have had it crashed like this:

# ptal-printd mlc:mlcpp0 -like /dev/lp0 &
ptalMlcChannelOpen(chan=0x0804AE00): error connecting socket!
ptalChannelOpen(chan=0x0804AE00): provider failed open!
ptal-printd: ptalChannelOpen failed!

[1]+  Exit 1                  ptal-printd mlc:mlcpp0 -like /dev/lp0


other times, it is printing a few pages and it halts. the display
on the printer says "please re-connect to pc and press enter" (or
something similar to that effect). after pressing enter, the
printout is gone from the queue and nothing is printing any more.

also, i think it is not matching lpd. sometimes they get out of
sync and i have to stop lpd, then start ptald, then restart lpd.

just now, i had to reboot altogether to get
things to even print again. maybe this was a
problem with the modules? or perhaps i am doing something wrong...

i have a redhat 6.2 system:

Linux abc 2.2.16-3smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 19:00:35 EDT 2000 i686 unknown

any ideas appreciated.

btw, i think the new way to run things without the wrapfilter is great.
much easier. also, the redhat srpm would be helpful too.

thanks,

-c