From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 7:45: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from no-spam.it.helsinki.fi (NO-SPAM.it.helsinki.fi [128.214.205.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DB237B425 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mursu.pesa.fi (root@sirppi.helsinki.fi [128.214.205.27]) by no-spam.it.helsinki.fi (8.11.4/8.11.4-SPAMmers-sod-off) with ESMTP id fA8FiuV08794 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:44:56 +0200 (EET) Received: (from poku@localhost) by mursu.pesa.fi (8.11.4/8.11.1) id fA8FdEV46457; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:39:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from poku@mursu.pesa.fi) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printing suddenly got difficult ... From: Jussi Reissell Date: 08 Nov 2001 17:39:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87lmhh5l26.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a nice little HP deskjet which has been working perfectly so far with apsfilter, gs and the rest of the printing stuff. After I did a bit of upgrading things got out of hand. I upgraded KDE to 2.2 and it insisted on installing cups. Now I have the lp, lpr, lpq etc binaries in two places. The standard ones in /usr/(s)bin and binaries with the same name in /usr/local/(s)bin. The cups installed things don't seem do anything intelligent (at least without further configuring, which I'm not about to do) but they are on the search path and get mixed up with the original good ones. So I have to run around just to use, say, mpage. Why does KDE insist on installing cups, when the original BSD printing is a configuration option within KDE? How many different printer configuration options does one need? Can I just pkg_delete -f cups? What will KDE say if I do that? Then, upgrading ghostscript made my printings awfully dark. Made it impossible to print legible double-sided prints. Tried twiddling with the ghostscript switch -dMasterGamma. No effect. Then tried the more esoteric tweak from the man page: including a {0.9 exp} settransfer before the actual printjob. No effect whatsoever. With different gamma-values. So, does anybody have an idea on how to change the gamma with the cdj880 gs driver? And, a2ps seems screwed. Now what happened to that? If I try to run it I get a a2ps:/usr/local/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map:50: unexpected character `*' message and the show stops there. How can I fix this? There seems to be tons of '*' characters in the sheets.map file, so the one on line 50 doesn't seem to be too out of place. Any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message