Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:23:18 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan E Fosburgh <wotan@fosburgh.org> To: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cups port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101092121540.10354-100000@gw.fosburgh.org> In-Reply-To: <87hf3819v7.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org>
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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
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