kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) (05/30/91)
As has been posted, the DeskWriter, using driver 2.1, does not like to print under System 7 with virtual memory turned on. This seems to be a bug in System 7, but HP is trying to do a work around. In the meantime, we're supposed to live either with VM or printing, but not both. Well, I need printing even more than I need VM, so I sighed and turned off VM. But I just downloaded Nobu Toge's Flash-It 2.2b1, a screen capture init/cdev. He notes in his docs that he also had trouble with virtual memory on, but only in _24-bit mode_. (I haven't tried Flash-It yet, but I read the docs.) So I thought, hmmmmmmmm, maybe the DW has the same problem. Maybe all of us with printing problems in VM were also in 24-bit mode at the time? After all, don't really _need_ 32-bit, and so many apps can't handle it yet that I (and maybe others?) have left it off. I have switched VM back on, and have put my machine (IIsi) into 32-bit mode. And printing is working! No "datacomm buffer overrun" messages from the DW, at least not yet! 'Course, gotta turn 32-bit off for some apps, but still.... Anybody else having the same kind of experience? Ken Kreshtool kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (my real e-mail address; this post is from a friend's account on a different machine, so please don't just "r" back) -- --- Ah Love! Could You and I with Fate conspire, To Grasp this sorry scheme * of things (Lawrence Oon-Chye Khoo) Entire, * Would we not khoo@husc9.harvard.edu Shatter it
mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May29.233145.1215@husc3.harvard.edu> kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) writes: [re : printing on the DeskWriter with virtual memory on] >I have switched VM back on, and have put my machine (IIsi) into 32-bit mode. >And printing is working! No "datacomm buffer overrun" messages from the DW, >at least not yet! 'Course, gotta turn 32-bit off for some apps, but still.... Oh, sure. Rub it in for those of us who don't HAVE 32-bit machines!! Not only don't we get big memory, but we can't print. Ugh. :-) Seriously, anybody know whether MODE32 will fix the problem, too? Seeya, --Mike