From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 6: 5: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E24B37B71E for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14fMkR-0000hn-00; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:04:31 +0100 Received: from pd90172b7.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.183]) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14fMjD-0000gc-00; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:03:15 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:55:09 +0000 (GMT) From: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" X-X-Sender: To: Mike Meyer Cc: , Subject: Re: Printer Configuration In-Reply-To: <15031.6392.501847.974859@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A big help is a small interactive printer-configuration-script called apsfilter. It will produce printcap-entries and filter-scripts for you. You will find that in /usr/ports/print/ Also in this ports-directory you will find ghostscript - a printer-filter for .ps files. That should do for the beginning. Uli. On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:46:48 -0600 > From: Mike Meyer > To: ABEAICD@aol.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Printer Configuration > > ABEAICD@aol.com types: > > --part1_6b.11671e05.27e7cde3_boundary > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Please just send one copy of your question, as ascii text. Don't send > HTML, and expecially don't send two copies - one HTML and one > text. > > > Gentlemen: > > I have installed FreeBSD Power Pak Ver.4.2 in my PC, and now > > I am in the process of configuring my Printer. According to FreeBSD > > Handbook I tried to find itf the kernel supports parallel interface, for > > this I used the command: # dmesg | grep lpt0 the answer I get is: > > lpt0: on ppbus0 in the first line. lpt0: Interrupt-driven > > port in the second line. > > From the FreeBSD Book, I tried Testing the Printer: I used the > > command line # lptest > /dev/lpt0, I get no reaction to the status > > display. > > That's not a status display, that just sends text to the printer. If > nothing shows up on the printer, then you probably have a printer that > can't print ascii text, and need to install the appropriate > drivers. I recommend using ghostscript as the rendering engine (it > will need to know how to talk to your printer), and magicfilter as the > printer filter (it invokes other tools depending on the file type, > then ghostscript to render to the printer). > > > I also tried Configuring # /etc/printcap, the response i get is: > > /etc/printcap: Permission denied. > > I wish you could help me with this problem. I look forward to your > > answers. > > You have to configure printcap as root, but it won't do any good until > you've got the appropriate rendering engine and filter installed. > > > > Al. Saavedra. > > > > > > --part1_6b.11671e05.27e7cde3_boundary > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Gentlemen: > >
I have installed FreeBSD Power Pak Ver.4.2 in my PC, and now > >
I am in the process of configuring my Printer. According to FreeBSD > >
Handbook I tried to find itf the kernel supports parallel interface, for > >
this I used the command: # dmesg | grep lpt0 the answer I get is: > >
lpt0: <PRINTER> on ppbus0 in the first line. lpt0: Interrupt-driven > >
port in the second line. > >
From the FreeBSD Book, I tried Testing the Printer: I used the > >
command line  # lptest > /dev/lpt0, I get no reaction to the status > >
display. > >
I also tried  Configuring # /etc/printcap, the response i get is: > >
/etc/printcap: Permission denied. > >
I wish you could help me with this problem. I look forward to your > >
answers. > >
> >
Al. Saavedra. > >
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