From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 19:24: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ogopogo.flash.net (ogopogo.flash.net [209.30.2.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B1537B404 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (ip239.houston19.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.31.107.239]) by ogopogo.flash.net (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09064; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:23:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by gw.fosburgh.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0A3NPa10630; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:23:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:23:18 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan E Fosburgh Reply-To: fosburgh@flash.net To: Eric Jacoboni Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cups port In-Reply-To: <87hf3819v7.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Jan 2001, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > Hi, > > I've fetched, made and installed the Cups port but i'm not able to > make it work. I've (rapidly, i admit) read the pdf files but it's > seems curious that this port doesn't place some conf and init files > under /usr/local/etc as it seems some are necessary to start up > cupsd... > > In fact, i just want to test it to know if it solves the too bad > photo printing quality i get with either ghostscript or gnome-print > with my HP DJ890C. Would it be possible to just have a minimal conf > file in order to have a near "out of the box" printing system with > this port or, at least, a sort of a little howto ? The pristine source > distrib does contain conf files but, as far as i've seen, they are not > installed, that's intentional ? I've just gone through this myself, but I have finally got it working. Just copy over the default stuff, that is a good start. Also, you will need a /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd directory in order to get ppd to work. I have only just got this fixed minutes before sending this email, so there may be more fixes necessary. Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message