Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:20:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: David Banning <david@banning.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: print plain text with apsfilter Message-ID: <39E8F843.AD0EB959@urx.com> References: <39E79870.1D880A8F@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:19:12PM -0700 <200010131856.SAA18493@d.tracker> <39E79870.1D880A8F@urx.com> <v03130303b60e2f777521@[209.150.34.194]>
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media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > > At 2:26 AM +0000 10/14/00, David Banning wrote: > >> I just got through installing apsfilter. Did you run the > >> apsfilter/SETUP. When I got through with that, I could print text and > >> graphics. I still have a printer called lp2 that I use with plain > >> files via lpr -Plp2. > >> > >> Kent > > > >OK. I just did what you did. I just don't know if something goes > >through apsfilter and another print command is issued through > >"lpr -Plp2" if one will spool behind the other, or whether > >they will both try to print at once (and in the process knock > >heads as they both try and exit through the printer door) > > Afaik, it goes foobar -> lpd -> apsfilter -> lpr. If it still isn't > working try setting the debugging in apsfilter by decommenting set-x in > /usr/local/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter then check the log. This is discussed > in the document TROUBLESHOOTING in usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter > > Also make sure that ghostscript is installed, the device (the printer port) > is set (eg. # ./MAKEDEV lpt0), your spool directories are correct in > etc/printcap, and that lpd is running. lpd is not set to run with the > default installation. You need to change /etc/rc.conf so that > > lpd_enable="YES" > > or if you are logged on as root type > > # lpd > > whenever you want to start it. > > My problem is that gostscript won't run. Apparently it is looking for > libXaw.so.6 in usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 , but it's in > usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib , and I don't know how to make it > look there instead. Any ideas?? I had a problem like that when I started. I did a cvsup of ports. Then I cd'ed into the ghostscript directory and did a make clean and re-built ghostscript and it had no problems. Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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