Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:58:38 +0100 From: ivan.roth@free.fr To: mime@traveller.cz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: again canon printer trouble Message-ID: <20060119005838.que0d9m7y84cs4sg@imp4.free.fr>
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Michal Mertl wrote: > ivan.roth@free.fr wrote: > >>Ok, two short questions. >> >>-Is someone able to translate this for me (seems to be Czech)? >> http://www.abclinuxu.cz/hardware/show/65412;jsessionid=10vmgmw8u8l16 >> >>-May my problem be due to acpi in any way? I don't know acpi either. But may try >>something like debug.acpi.disabled="isa" in /boot/device.hints. Good or bad idea >>? > > > Hello. I am Czech. The page talks about using the printer under Linux. > Canon provides drivers for it. I don't know if they can be used because > I don't know the CUPS much. If the driver/filter program is (can be) > invoked manually, you could probably use it with FreeBSD native CUPS. If > not you can possibly run Linux CUPS and print to it even from FreeBSD > native applications. If the program directly communicates with the > printer you may be out of luck because you don't run Linux kernel and > the emulation may not be complete in these low-level areas. > > I didn't see your original post but printing issue can not be caused by > ACPI unless the interface for printing doesn't work at all. If for > example you use USB connection to the printer and something else USB > works, than ACPI can't be at fault. > > HTH > > Michal > > > Hi Michal, Definetely this ML should be read at least by czech people. Others are welcome for sure. Thanks a million for your translation and re-explanation. I am going to test in that way tomorrow. Of course, I still do not understand why I cannot print directly with > /dev/lpt0. About acpi, I told that because I have ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 in dmesg and all the examples I saw had isa instead of acpi. Any idea? Is it normal? Thanks again Michal. -- Regards, Ivan
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