From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 20:16:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (saratoga.linuxpowered.net [63.121.110.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A97837B40B for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) id g4N3GiJi028579 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:44 -0700 Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (www-data@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with SMTP id g4N3Ggos028571 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:42 -0700 Received: from portal.aphroland.org ([216.39.174.24]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1492.216.39.174.24.1022123802.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: CUPS & Parallel port printing - how ? From: "nate" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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'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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message