printer stopped working

peete · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 8 Location: England

Hi,

I've been running an epson c80 printer on gentoo for the last two years. A couple of weeks ago it stopped working for no apparent reason.

The relevant part of dmeg is :

devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)]
parport0: irq 7 detected
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0

with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

So it seems to be detected the printer, but just not recognising what it is ? I've done the obvious of checking the cables, and I'm pretty sure i've build the correct features into my kernel

Cheers

m33sb3w · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:28 am Post subject:

Same printer I use. Did you do anything with your system around the time you noticed it wouldn't work anymore? Like upgrade anything, recompile the kernel, that sort of thing?

peete · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 8 Location: England

It could have coincided with a new kernel, yes (I only use the printer once a month or so).

In the parallel port section I have the following built in

CONFIG_PARPORT
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC
CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL

And - if it's relevant - CONFIG_PNP and CONFIG_ISAPNP.

I dont think anything else has been changed on the machine. It's round at my parents house, and my mother still gets confused between Mozilla and Mozerella cheese, so I can't say for sure;)

m33sb3w · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 1:05 am Post subject:

Let's see...your kernel settings look good. Did you try just going through the configuration process again? What do you use to print...cups or something else?

peete · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 8 Location: England

yeah, I use cups. Kde's print manager shows the printer as 'idle .. accepting jobs', but any jobs I do put through just show as 'processing' untill I abort them

ranmakun · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject:

maybe a little late, but, did you solve your problem?, I've also been printing without problems for a lot of time and in the last days I got this problem, that any job I send to print keep in "processing" status.