Re: A tough problem : Error -2539

On May 6, 10:37 pm, Dave Balderstone
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1178504239.203624.79...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

<boot...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's the error number I get when I try to print to a Desktop printer
in OS 9.2. Not the Classic mode of OS X, but 9.2.

It's a Microline 320 Turbo USB impact printer attached to beige G3-300
via a PCI board. I'm using the OKIIBM PPD from the Linux Foundation.
I've looked at it and there's no reason it shouldn't work.

Yet it doesn't work. Are you certain there is no reason?

It was built with the foo-matic PPD generator and didn't have any
garbage characters in it.
If the generator works, then this PPD should work. I haven't checked
all the PostScript by hand, no.


I selected Laserwriter 8 in the Chooser, and used the desktop printer
utility to create the Desktop Printer ( of course ). It picked up the
ML320 just fine through USB.

Why are you selecting a laser printer driver for an impact printer?

Because in OS 9, all the PostScript printers are handled by
LaserWriter 8.
It's 9 pin dot matrix, not daisy wheel.




I have also set the printer in Epson FX emulation mode with the
correct driver, and as a IBM Proprinter, with the same results. Tried
using the AdobePS, instead of the Laserwriter 8 driver too.
The error is supposed to be from the Device manager indicating that
there wasn't a matching entry in the Name Registry ( nrNotFoundErr ).

I checked the firmware and in the nvram there is a routine I haven't
been able to decipher yet. Before the happy Mac it prints "can't:
OPEN" a few dozen times across the screen. The machine then boots
normally. The routine *appears* to check the attached peripherals,
keyboard, disk drives, and the like.

How do you know?

Because I brought the machine up in OpenFirmware and read it.
Cmd-Opt-O-F and printenv. The programmer button is hard to reach on
this model.


An external USB ZIP drive has been added to the machine since I last
had to work with it. I think my sister (!!!) managed to install it. It
didn't snow in Hell that day, but they did get some heavy rain.

What does that have to do with your problem? Who cares?

Because she may have installed this routine without knowing it, or
perhaps the routine is there by default
for this machine. She has no idea what she did or didn't do. I don't
know what would have been
involved installing a USB Zip-250 drive.

It was a funny anecdote, to lighten the moment.


I tried to set the use-nvramrc? back to false ( default ) and the boot-
command to boot instead of the routine entry point but then the
machine couldn't find the boot drive.

It's for my father. There is no substitute for success. I can't
upgrade the OS, or get a different printer, or anything else. Please,
no suggestions to evade the problem.

What, precisely IS the problem?

I get a -2539 error when I try to use the printer.


I'm stumped. Even if I wrote a Forth subroutine and added it to the
one already in nvram, I wouldn't know what value to set nor what to
set it to. Any guidance or guess of a solution is welcome.

Get a driver that works or replace the fucking printer.

If the -2539 error is as it appears to me, then the problem would be
the printer isn't getting
registered at start up because of a Device Manager problem, not the
driver, nor the printer.


You want to appear like you know what you're talking about, but if you
did you wouldn't be posting here.

I have included every bit of information I have, not knowing what is
or is not important.

I'm not trying to appear to be anything other than what I am. This is
my first post on this
group. I don't know anyone here, I don't have any reputation to up
hold and I'm too busy
to worry about it.

You, however, seem to have time on your hands and are here frequently.
So do you have
self-esteem issues or are you just having a bad day? I'm thinking it's
both, because you haven't
a single substantive suggestion, you ask remedial questions, you're
demonstrably upset that
I have posted, and none of this is your concern.


So... Write a Forth subroutine already.

I probably will unless someone has a better suggestion.

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Oh, wow. A pirate. From Canada. You DO have self-esteem issues. That's
OK. They're legitimate.


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