Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:17:55 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS & Parallel port printing - how ? Message-ID: <20020525111755.68dcddd6.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <1492.216.39.174.24.1022123802.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> References: <1492.216.39.174.24.1022123802.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net>
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On Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) "nate" <freebsd@aphroland.org> wrote: > I've run out of ideas. and about out of hair. no matter what > I do I cannot get CUPS to recognize the parallel port for my > printer(Epson C80). I had it working at one point(for quite a while, > and i haven't rebooted since then ..). but last week for some > reason it got REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALY slow. slow as in 1 page of > plain text per 20 minutes of printing. the printer's ink thing > would go accross the page once every 10 seconds or so. So i > decided to try to install a new ghostscript to see if that may > speed things up, there is a new one on linuxprinting.org that > was partially funded by epson so i had hoped it would improve > performance. but of course then i lost the parallel port option > in cups, in the WWW UI the Parallel port setting just isn't there > anymore, if I try to add it via the command line it says something > like client error - not possible or something. It gives me the port > options of serial1/serial2 lpd, http and ipp I believe, and USB > too, just no parallel. I have 2 existing printers configured > to use parallel ports, from the other version of cups/ghostscript > but when i try to do anything with them i get the client error -- not > possible again. > > I removed that version of ghostscript, ran cvsup on my ports and > reinstall gnu ghostscript, same thing, removed & reinstalled cups, > same thing. no matter what i do I can't configure it to print to > the parallel port. > > what tells cups what ports are available? I am running Freebsd 4.4 > on a dual P2-450 with 1GB ecc ram on an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. > If there is another way to print i'll try it, but from what i have > read the gimp-print driver is the best for this printer. > > all the docs i have seen say cups should just work, i don't > understand why this port would not show up as being available. > my kernel is custom built, with parallel port support built into it. > > thanks > > nate Nate, Confirm that the Cups startup script is being run from the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. If you don't the "Parallel Port #1 (interrupt-driven)" may not show up when doing Admin printer setups. Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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