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  • VICE crashes when printing to the host - sometimes

    From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 2 16:44:04 2016
    Subject says it all. ;-)

    My host is Linux and I run the CUPS printing system. Still trying to
    produce something readable when printing from the machine (VICE 2.4.dfsg+2.4.20-1). Besides having no luck (some programs print garbage,
    some nothing at all) I experience crashes by VICE itself. More or less randomly, but when I try hard enough (repeated printing attempts from
    within the machine) VICE eventually will crash. To be clear, it's not the machine (the emulated Commodore 64 in this case) which crashes.

    In the case below I was using the program Writer's Choice. I yet have to
    find another program I have on disk which is able to print to see what
    happens there.

    I could capture some (Linux) console printout. Here are the last lines
    before it sends me back to the command prompt:

    AUTOSTART: Loading program '*'
    AUTOSTART: Starting program.
    AUTOSTART: Done.
    Serial Interface: Error - Flush printer #4,7 while closed - ignoring.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Error - Flush printer #4,4 while closed - ignoring.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,4.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,4.
    Received signal 11 (SIGSEGV), exiting.

    Here I was trying to change the secondary printer address from default 7
    to (channel I believe) 4.

    Btw. if anybody can print successfully to his host printer with a program
    in VICE I'd like to see the parts concerning the printers from her/his
    vicerc.
    --
    Andreas

    I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
    as I have to reboot my computer.

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  • From Simon Becherer@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 24 20:17:09 2016
    Hi andereas,

    i could print (text only) in vice
    with a own written old programm.
    its partly assembler, partly basic,
    compiled with "basic boss"

    give me a private mail if you like to know more.
    host is opensuse 11.4evergreen linux.

    simoN





    Am 02.01.2016 um 22:44 schrieb Andreas Kohlbach:
    Subject says it all. ;-)

    My host is Linux and I run the CUPS printing system. Still trying to
    produce something readable when printing from the machine (VICE 2.4.dfsg+2.4.20-1). Besides having no luck (some programs print garbage,
    some nothing at all) I experience crashes by VICE itself. More or less randomly, but when I try hard enough (repeated printing attempts from
    within the machine) VICE eventually will crash. To be clear, it's not the machine (the emulated Commodore 64 in this case) which crashes.

    In the case below I was using the program Writer's Choice. I yet have to
    find another program I have on disk which is able to print to see what happens there.

    I could capture some (Linux) console printout. Here are the last lines
    before it sends me back to the command prompt:

    AUTOSTART: Loading program '*'
    AUTOSTART: Starting program.
    AUTOSTART: Done.
    Serial Interface: Error - Flush printer #4,7 while closed - ignoring.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,7.
    Serial Interface: Error - Flush printer #4,4 while closed - ignoring.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,4.
    Serial Interface: Auto-opening printer #4,4.
    Received signal 11 (SIGSEGV), exiting.

    Here I was trying to change the secondary printer address from default 7
    to (channel I believe) 4.

    Btw. if anybody can print successfully to his host printer with a program
    in VICE I'd like to see the parts concerning the printers from her/his vicerc.


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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Simon Becherer on Thu Mar 24 17:18:46 2016
    Simon Becherer wrote on 24. March 2016:

    i could print (text only) in vice
    with a own written old programm.
    its partly assembler, partly basic,
    compiled with "basic boss"

    give me a private mail if you like to know more.
    host is opensuse 11.4evergreen linux.

    Well it got to be a configuration issue on my side. It kind of prints,
    but just garbage.

    Actually I would like to get something I print out from The Print Shop
    (which I seem not to get working as I just notice), Print Master or Print
    Fox. If you have any of these (and time :-) could you try to create
    something and print it out with your configuration first?

    But if you could otherwise find all lines in your ~/.vice/vicerc starting
    with "Printer" and email me them (this email address here should work,
    and it seems you are German, so you can write me in German) to me I could
    check them against mine.

    Thanks.
    --
    Andreas

    I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
    as I have to reboot my computer.

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