On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:00:05AM -0500, thus said Phil Fraering: > Using printtool, the Epson 1520 I have will finally print an > ASCII test page. Although it doesn't seem to want to print a > postscript test page or anything else other than straight to > the port. Still, I can print something by cat'ing to > /dev/usb/lp0, which is more than I could do before.
Check out http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, it's the Gimp print plugin project, but it also includes a Ghostscript and CUPS driver using the same backend. This will give you print quality that is in the same class as the native Epson drivers for Windows and Mac. In other words, it rocks. It is a bit tricky to setup, but there are instructions how to make it work with LPR, then you can just print postscript and the quality is _awesome_. To do it in a smart way, you want to setup many printer aliases, all with the same printer device, but with different options, so you can print to glossy paper, inkjet paper, plain paper, with different DPI etc. There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I had it setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been updating stuff since) - I mostly print from Gimp and it doesnt need the GS driver so it is not that important for me at the moment. But I remember the printout was just stunning quality. > Finally, is anyone else using firewire on the mac? I had > video1394.o compiled as a module, but it won't insert into > the kernel. I dont have any firewire devices, but using Ben's kernel tree (linux-2.4-benh) from 2 weeks ago, version being 2.4.5-pre3, I get the module inserted ok, and it seems to recognize the thing. However I dont currently have any firewire devices. I am planning to buy a FW harddisk though, so I can volunteer as a guinea pig in the near future. Any recommendations on which ones should work on Linux? This is my kernel.log when I modprobe video1394: Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: registered ohci1394 driver, initializing now Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394: looking for Ohci1394 cards Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 06:0e.0 (0010 -> 0012) Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: remapped memory spaces reg 0xd1844000 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: allocated interrupt 40 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: soft reset finished Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: max packet size = 2048 bytes Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso receive contexts available Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso transmit contexts available Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=0 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=1 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=0 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=1 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=2 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: resetting bus on request Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: detected 1 ohci1394 adapter Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: irq_handler timeout event=0x00020000 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: PhyControl: 8003017F Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, root) Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x807f8452 rcvd Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: including selfid 0x807f8452 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: This node self-id is 0x807f8452 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: calling self-id complete Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: video1394: initialized with 1 ohci cards Best wishes, Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . |\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-----. +----> www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <----+ `-----> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'