Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:58:27 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com> Subject: [gtaylor@picante.com: apsfilter/pnp database integration] Message-ID: <19990706235827.A76827@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Is somebody perhaps working on that ? I think Grant's idea is very good of maintaining a ghostscript printer database and his idea to make apsfilter aware of connected printer type. In FreeBSD possibly some infrastructure is missing. Please look his comments about how Linux folks implemented this. I think it would be fine, if we could be compatible with Linux to do the printer auto recognition via IEEE parport probe strings. Is there some work in the pipeline or has somebody interest to implement it. Perhaps some code from Linux can be used ? See http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/#2 for general information about the printer database. Cc'd to Marcel since he does Linux Emulation. Cc'd to Grant, that he can perhaps exchange infos with Marcel. Thanks Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Latest song from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/mp3/schaukel.mp3 --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <gtaylor@pace.picante.com> Received: (from uucp@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA76236 for andreas@klemm.gtn.com; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:26:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gtaylor@pace.picante.com) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by mail.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA08547 for <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:39:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 4A37415135; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: andreas@freebsd.org Received: from pace.picante.com (pace.picante.com [199.103.241.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB8915171 for <andreas@freebsd.org>; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtaylor@pace.picante.com) Received: from pace.picante.com (gtaylor@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pace.picante.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09142 for <andreas@freebsd.org>; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:39:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199907062039.QAA09142@pace.picante.com> To: andreas@freebsd.org Subject: apsfilter/pnp database integration Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:39:10 -0300 From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com> Sender: gtaylor@pace.picante.com Hi there. I maintain the Linux Printing HOWTO and an associated printer compatibility database, and I'd like to add a feature to apsfilter. The database contains IEEE parport probe strings, and driver information, for many printers. It seems like it should be possible to have apsfilter automatically identify connected printers and drivers by connecting the autoprobe info and the compatibility list. I want to mangle this feature in. For a little background, see the database, notes and example_script at http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/#2 So my questions are: - What version of apsfilter should I sit down and play with? 5.1.2? A development snapshot from somewhere? - Does FreeBSD report the parport probe info for attached printers, and how? In Linux 2.2, for example, the ID strings appear in the file /proc/parport/<n>/autoprobe. - Any opinions on how this should be implemented? -- Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/ Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/ Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/ --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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