Crashes with printing to an Epson C80 |
December, 09, 2002 10:52 AM |
bushellk |
Lately I've been unable to print to an Epson C80 any file approx. 18 MB or over. Darwin text suddenly appears onscreen either while spooling to the printer (47 MB file) or while printing (18 MB file). This seems to be a memory problem, but I have 496 MB RAM, more than enough to print files of this size, I should think. I'm using Photoshop 7.0.1 with the latest Epson OSX driver recently d/l from the Epson site. I'm running 10.1.5 on a PowerMac 8500 with a PowerLogix G3/500 card and XPF 2.2.4. I should add that I never had this problem before. The only significant change I've made to my setup recently is to install a router and turn AppleTalk and File Sharing on. Could this cause memory problems of this sort, even when I'm not connected to another computer on the LAN? Is there something flaky with the Epson driver under AppleTalk? Some error messages that appear in the Darwin text: "We can't get a mutex interlock lock on mutex_lock." Also "unresolved kernel trap (cpu 0): 0 x 300 - Data access DAR=0x00000565 PC=0x0008bfb0 . . . Latest crash info - Exception state (SV=0x132af000)." The numbers following the = sign change from crash to crash. I am able to print the same files while booted into 9.1. I plan to upgrade to 10.2 over the holidays; will this improve the situation? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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RE: Crashes with printing to an Epson C80 |
December, 26, 2002 7:12 PM |
OSXGuru |
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I am terribly behind on e-mail, as you've noticed. If you posted the panic text here, I'll probably look at it before I catch up on e-mail. |
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RE: Crashes with printing to an Epson C80 |
December, 11, 2002 9:20 PM |
bushellk |
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Thanks for responding. Since I posted, I ran Disk FirstAid on the drive and found some directory errors. Maybe that was causing it. I plan to upgrade to 10.2 over the holidays. I'm hoping that I'll be able to set up a second monitor with that. So far I haven't had any luck. When I plug a monitor into the built in video I get a kernel panic on startup. (Current monitor is plugged in to an ATI card.) I sent you a personal email about this, but I guess you haven't had time to look at it. Or perhaps you did and replied but it got lost amid all the spam I'm getting these days. I can post the kernel panic text again here, if that would be useful. I still have it on file. |
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RE: Crashes with printing to an Epson C80 |
December, 10, 2002 9:04 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Upgrading to 10.2 may well help. If it doesn't, then your best bet is to write down the kernel panic info (or take a picture, if you have a digital camera) and post it to see if someone can make sense of it. The DAR seems unusually low--it sounds like a bug somewhere--the rest of the panic info might help. |