From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 03:49:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4974F106566B for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 03:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mla_strick@att.net) Received: from smtp126.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp126.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.65.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 295DA8FC12 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 03:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 62610 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2010 03:22:41 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1291432961; bh=9ZARbFOSV+0L1HPuh72SovXQ/2zE0pGXiFSH4InaBd0=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:Received:Date:From:Message-Id:To:Subject; b=Ba4NQpMPumxEsRAq6OFFzuLKBTu0WVKXUilDq+bJpKWwh9dJBoWPx5VBBQANNowrJRjWO6wondGPqxnsZXRyFiabxagMJ+gXTRvx8i8DHhi+BgxuTkOTWdIOLsiM5D7cAFjugt6g+afnUsFMWqoItygD43VX9wyj9WN3zJ7KjY0= Received: from mist.nodomain (mla_strick@69.228.203.87 with login) by smtp126.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 03 Dec 2010 19:22:41 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: ppEzeiKswBBq7wHVNDEiPbPsAwzyGELyRI8IdiDYGqsxaD5uQA-- X-YMail-OSG: tf2kwKoVM1kb_FqtqPU_EkVxdGOlg4iJHurwmQTQJre9nsW whJ_ycgwiaQk5wLpmisk.62mrXQRE2cSn21b.rJ9SMBfqhNX_mclYN_HTf6K lJq5qIM7SZvNgIZDD6LSKBauyzZDLw17wtRVsHDFBvvS.P8oJiGGJyO9x_zK 5_2kFFrxR2Np9.p5P.dPH2TtLXD9jT8N10Y1k1qr6S0zdBstm1s6s9K8xyOO cekkDPxDh9SXg0zV14sZB9uWghLcR_SdPKDqY X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from mist.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mist.nodomain (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oB43MYkQ077722 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mla@mist.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mist.nodomain (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oB43MYTU077721 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:22:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mla) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:22:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <201012040322.oB43MYTU077721@mist.nodomain> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: printing from inside Linux firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:49:22 -0000 I am running FreeBSD release 8.1. I normally run a Linux Firefox (currently version 3.5.15) because I need the flash plugin (/usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10). I also need to print web pages on occasion but the Linux Firefox does not recognize the printers attached to my system. It writes warning/error messages like this in the window from which I ran the Firefox program: (firefox-bin:77065): Gtk-WARNING **: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory If I copy the missing library (from Fedora 10 Linux) into /compat/linux, Firefox complains about another missing library. If I give it more libraries until it shuts up, it still does not find my printers. I speculated that cups requires additional configuration, so I created the file /compat/linux/etc/cups/pinters.conf with a entry, but Firefox still won't recognize my printer and it produces no warning/error messages that might give me a hint. Obviously, I don't know what I am doing. Can this be made to work? I tried /usr/ports/www/firefox which installs as firefox3, a native FreeBSD Firefox program. It will print via lpr, but It won't do flash. I tried the flashplugin-mozilla port, but it just causes a segmentation violation when I visit a page with flash items. (Oddly enough, if I install linux-f10-flashplugin10 in a recent 3.6.xxx version of Linux Firefox, it seems to fail in the same way.) I tried printing to a file, but both the Linux and FreeBSD Firefox programs create slightly strange postscript and pdf files which seem to display correctly via the ghostscript and acroread programs but won't print correctly on my postscript printer (a Brother HL-1270N). I tried Linux Opera. It fails just like the Linux Firefox. This is actually a serious problem. There are sometimes when I just *have* to be able to save a postscript image (e.g. a map) and print it later. My sister tells me that I should be using MS Windows because that always works correctly. I don't know how to prove her wrong. Help! Dan Strick