printing problems, Ultra 1, parport_sunbpp driver

["Ola" <lists_os@ml1.net>]

Hi people,


I've been struggling with a HP LaserJet 1100A for some time now
without much success in getting sensible PostScript output. Some
background info:


sputnik:~# uname -a
Linux sputnik 2.4.25.040429 #1 Thu Apr 29 09:39:15 CEST 2004 sparc64
unknown
sputnik:~# lsmod | grep lp
lp                      8344   0
parport                32016   1  [lp parport_sunbpp]
sputnik:~# grep -e ^cpu /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : TI UltraSparc I   (SpitFire)
sputnik:~# gs -v
GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)

Right now I have lprng installed, and I manage to print ascii,
but that's all. When I try to print ps-files, the output consists of a
few lines of weird symbols (mostly dingbats). I've also tried
different drivers when printing from gs directly. The ljet4 driver gets 
me weird symbols and the hpijs driver gives only error messages:

gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
-sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 tmp.ps
I get weird symbols output.

sputnik:~# gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs
-dDuplex=false -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 tmp.ps
unable to set key=OutputFile, value=/dev/lp0
unable to set Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0, err=4
following will be used Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0
unable to set paper size=17, err=4
unable to set Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0, err=4
following will be used Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0
unable to set paper size=17, err=4
Error: /ioerror in --.outputpage--
Operand stack:
   1   true
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--  
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3 
    %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop  
   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2  
   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   0   4   %oparray_pop  
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1041/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:68/200(L)--  
   --dict:106/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 32
Current file position is 111237
GNU Ghostscript 6.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


I have also tried cups using the hpijs driver and
HP-LaserJet_1100A-hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org without any
success. It seems like an output filter problem since I only get weird
symbols, but shouldn't gs take care of converting ps to pcl (with
appropriate driver)? I'm pretty much a newbie on Linux (sparc in
particular) so forgive me if the solution is trivial, or trivially
found by google (but I have searched).
  

Thanks,
/Ola


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