Linux-Misc Digest #585, Volume #19 Wed, 24 Mar 99 06:13:13 EST
Contents:
make[1]: as86: Command not found (Michael Robbins)
Re: Linux on Packard-Bell DX250 "Force 53CD" system? (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Linux on Packard-Bell DX250 "Force 53CD" system? (steve mcadams)
Re: Modem PCI intern & PPP (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Hasler)
Re: Incredibly STUPID linux question - How do I format a floppy disk? (Desmond
Coughlan)
SuSE 6.0, Bravo! ("Cameron Spitzer")
Canon BJC 7004 printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM, where to get? ("Denton")
Re: Installing Kernel 2.2.4 with Red Hat ("Charles Sullivan")
New to Linux --> Go Here ("John Adams")
Re: how do I add packages after installation? (John McKown)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? - Consider Freebsd instead (Richard Steiner)
Re: Documentation question.... (Richard Steiner)
Re: how do I add packages after installation? (Villy Kruse)
Kernel NFS: equivalent to userland nfsd -r in kernel NFS (Rainer Krienke)
Re: IE5 under Linux (Brian Ewart)
Re: Help with editing makefiles (Mike)
Re: Setting up a special proxy/router (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Re: Uninstall Linux (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Re: IE5 under Linux (Leslie Mikesell)
printer HP 870cxi setting ? (Yoram Benchetrit)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Robbins)
Subject: make[1]: as86: Command not found
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:21:38 GMT
I get the following error message upon running 'make zImage'...
Can anyone tell me which lib as86 is in?
Thanks for any help.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Subject: Re: Linux on Packard-Bell DX250 "Force 53CD" system?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 04:51:48 +0100
steve mcadams schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi folks. Finally got around to starting Linux install on my new(ly
>scavenged) test system. It's an older Packard-Bell multimedia system
>they called the "Force 53CD". Comes with 4m onboard ram, and a cdrom
>that is (believe it or not!) connected to the sound card of all
>places.
>
>Anyway, I tried installing SuSE 5.3 and it couldn't find/use the
>cdrom, so my install is halted for the moment. Guess I could try a
>couple different distributions, but I thought I'd see if anyone else
>had contended with this particular wierdness first. Takers anyone?
>tia.
>___________________________________________________________________________
____
>"profanity offends inanity. *****n rock on." -steve,
http://www.codetools.com/showcase
Hi Steve,
Don't yo have the SuSE book ??? ( I've got it with my 5.1 )
You can try several kernel-parameters at boot-time for soundcard-cdroms.
It's much to much to list them all now (more than 10 pages).
Perhaps you can post the type of soundcard and cdrom?
eg for the Mitsumi-cdrom : mcd=<addr>,<irq>[,<wait>] wait: 1 -10 for
timeout of slow drives
mcd=0x300,10,5
Bernd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: Linux on Packard-Bell DX250 "Force 53CD" system?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 03:19:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks. Finally got around to starting Linux install on my new(ly
scavenged) test system. It's an older Packard-Bell multimedia system
they called the "Force 53CD". Comes with 4m onboard ram, and a cdrom
that is (believe it or not!) connected to the sound card of all
places.
Anyway, I tried installing SuSE 5.3 and it couldn't find/use the
cdrom, so my install is halted for the moment. Guess I could try a
couple different distributions, but I thought I'd see if anyone else
had contended with this particular wierdness first. Takers anyone?
tia.
_______________________________________________________________________________
"profanity offends inanity. *****n rock on." -steve, http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem PCI intern & PPP
Date: 24 Mar 1999 03:49:13 GMT
c&c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I cannot initialize a ppp connection with my modem. PPPD is unable to
: find it, or find it busy ? Can anybody help me ?
You don't actually have a modem. You have a piece of s%!^. Winmodems suck
--
Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:03:15 GMT
Johan Kullstam writes:
> i'd love to use AMS-LaTeX but the US DoD requires all documentation be
> submitted in `MS-Word 6.0 for Windows' format.
You really should write to your congressman and/or Ralph Nader about this.
Maybe one of the news organizations would be interested. Might make an a
nice little investigative reporting bit.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
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From: Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Incredibly STUPID linux question - How do I format a floppy disk?
Date: 24 Mar 1999 09:00:13 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kristy) writes:
> I need to format a 3.5" floppy disk under RHLinux 5.2, then I'm gonna
> copy a *.tgz file on it for transport to another linux system.
mke2fs -c -L <label> /dev/fd0
cp <filename.tgz> /de/fd0
... or ...
dd if=<filename.tgz> of=/dev/fd0
I'm not 100 % sure of the latter, as I've only ever used it to copy
the kernel to a floppy. The first works, though.
> A little help please, and no jokes! ;-)
Try
man mke2fs
... or ...
man mkfs
The next time you ask for help, you might get more responses if your
question were phrased a little less ... aggressively. :-)
--
Desmond Coughlan |Restez zen ... Linux peut le faire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[www site under construction]
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.0, Bravo!
Date: 24 Mar 1999 06:44:04 GMT
I've just installed SuSE 6.0 on my system at work, and I'm impressed.
Lots of stuff works "right out of the box" that has been broken in
every Linux distribution I have tried before. Sax is miles ahead
of Xconfigurator or xf86Config. They even had a menu item to switch
from click to focus to focus follows mouse.
Bravo, SuSE, nice job.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canon BJC 7004 printer
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:55:10 GMT
Hi. I am trying to set up my new Canon BJC 7004 printer under Linux.
Using the Redhat 'printtool' program, I was able to configure it to
use the BCJ-600/BJC-4000 print driver to print both ascii and postscript
files.
The problem now, AFAIK, is that ghostscript is sending output at 360x360
resolution, while my printer is expecting it at 1200x600. This results
in pages being only printed on the upper left 1/4 of the page. Other
than that, the output looks great (it's legible, it prints in color).
Is there any way to fix this? maybe with an option to ghostscript? as
a start, I don't really care if the printer prints in a lower resolution,
as long as it covers the entire page. any ideas?
Sincerely,
Keith Johnson
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From: "Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM, where to get?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:38:48 -1000
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
>In the "Changes" file included with the 2.2.3 source lists a
>group of files that I will need to obtain to properly update
>my system. Amoung the things listed is a new version of the
>RPM package. Being I have'nt done an actual kernel update
>this way before, I figured I needed to follow the instructions
>to the letter. I am now wondering how many of these packages
>I actually need to get.
Goto www.linuxhq.com. There is a link that says Updating - Red Hat Notes.
It's a step by step guide to upgrade Redhat. If you have never upgraded a
kernel before, then follow it to the letter. It works. My first attempt
was with source files. I ended up breaking my linker ( A nightmare from
hell!!!). But that's another story......
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Kernel 2.2.4 with Red Hat
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:39:30 -0500
You can build the new kernel and still keep the old kernel, and boot up
into either. You'll have to modify lilo.config and rerun lilo to set up the
alternate boot arrangement. Once you're happy with the new kernel you
can then delete the old one (or just leave it be - it doesn't take up that
much room.)
The most likely change regarding a printer is that the old kernel detects
parallel port LPT1 as lp1 whereas the new kernel will probably detect it as
lp0, so you'll need to run printtools to change the configuration. I don't
know about Ethernet.
Benjamin HERZOG wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello ,
>I am runing Linux Red Hat 5.2 ; Kernel 2.0.34
>I would like to upagrade to Kernel 2.2.4
>To do this i can download the sources and run make, but i heard that
>with Red Hat, that can be done differently, and more easily ...
>
>Second, i would like to know what does a recompilation alter on the
>system :
>LILO config ?
>Printers and Ethernet config and drivers ?
>What will i have to do after recompile so that the system works OK ?
>Do i need to save important files before recompiling ?
>
>Thank you for helping ...
>
>Benjamin HERZOG
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "John Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New to Linux --> Go Here
Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:36:34 -0500
I've posted this to alt.redhat.install and have received positive feedback.
Anyone looking for information should check out these two sites. The first
provides a some links to information about Linux
http://www.catseye.com/adampr/linux.html, while the second is one of the
links on the page http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html. The second is
very useful and should be consulted before posting any questions on the
news group.
To newbies: People have a problem with answering the same questions over
and over again while a lot of the questions you have can be answered
through only a little bit of research. One of the best ways to see if your
question has already been asked is to check http://www.dejanews.com and
search the archives of messages. There is a fountain of information
already out
there.
To users of Linux: The news groups are pretty unhelpful and at times rude
to new users of Linux and its distributions. Linux will not go anywhere if
users who are on the fence about whether to try it or not are being flamed.
Save your flames and instead point them to a place where the material is
already published on the net. By doing so, you are teaching them to find
information for themselves without insulting them. When new users are
insulted, they will of course think, "Screw Linux, Windows forever." The
more users of Linux - the quicker it will expand and thus, more products
and devices will be supported by it. Then when someone wants to find out
the answer to a similar question, he/she can search for it on at dejanews.
One of the best run news groups out there is alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++.
They frequently post a FAQ list and suggest sites that should be consulted
first before posting a question. Doing this will save yourself a lot of
aggravation at newbies and you can continue to help others with difficult
questions.
Sincerely,
John Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: how do I add packages after installation?
Date: 24 Mar 1999 04:24:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I usually just use rpm. Assume you want to install x.rpm, then
enter the command
rpm -i x.rpm
If there are any prereqs you don't have, you'll get an error. If
you've already installed x.rpm, you'll get an error. rpm is pretty
good about protecting you from harm. Not perfect, since I've managed
to munge some stuff, but decent.
John
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:40:37 -0000, yft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Can someone tell me how I can add packages that were initially left out
>during installation? I left out some of the development packages by mistake.
>I'm using RH Linux 5.2.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Jon
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install? - Consider Freebsd instead
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:34:05 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Blevins) spake unto us, saying:
>You may want to consider freebsd instead.
>
>Better docs. Easier more intuitive install. Alltogether better system.
I respectfully disagree. The two seem comparable to me in terms of
basic installation, with a nod to SuSE and RedHat (at the very least)
in the later stages of configuration and for better support of other
filesystems and extended partitions (FreeBSD is crippled by the need
to be installed in a primary, at least IMhO).
As a desktop system, I've never been all that happy with FreeBSD. It's
okay, I guess, but I prefer all three of the Linux distros I've used
over FreeBSD 2.1/2.2.2/2.2.7 based on my limited experience with those
versions so far.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
bough, cough, dough, rough, sought, through, hiccough
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Documentation question....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:27:10 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Nevermind" <oneway.com> spake unto us, saying:
>I'm new to Linux and I want to get a some decent documentation on the ins
>and outs of it. Any recommendations.....???
Depends on what you're looking for. But I've always found the various
online documents and HOWTOs at the Linux Documentation Project to be
very helpful:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/
and these are good introductory books (in terms of general concepts),
if possibly getting a little dated:
http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/LUG/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/gs.html
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
I multitask... I read in the bathroom!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: how do I add packages after installation?
Date: 24 Mar 1999 10:46:14 +0100
In article <7d9pea$3pn8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I usually just use rpm. Assume you want to install x.rpm, then
>enter the command
>
>rpm -i x.rpm
>
Step by step:
Insert the no 1 CD
do 'mount /mnt/cdrom'
do 'cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS'
do 'rpm -i name-of-package-versnos-i386.rpm'
The gui way is to start glint and select the package you want to
install and install it.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Krienke)
Subject: Kernel NFS: equivalent to userland nfsd -r in kernel NFS
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: 24 Mar 1999 10:56:05 +0100
Hello,
in userland NFS it was possible to start nfsd with option -r to reexport
directories that the nfs server itself mounted from elswhere. The NFS
client was then able to mount any of the directories exported by the
server no matter if this filesystem was local to the server or coming
from somewhere else.
What IŽd like to know if something similar exists in the kernel based
NFS code?
Does anyone know?
Thanks
Rainer Krienke
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Universitaet Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke
Rechenzentrum, Voice: +49 261 287 - 1312
Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Germany Fax: +49 261 287 - 1355
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From: Brian Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IE5 under Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:50:09 -0500
Robert B. Kasten wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc "James" <smithies> wrote:
> > Can't you see that 99% of people here use the newsgroup as a platform to
> > influence others as part of their anti-Microsoft agenda?
>
> > If any of you had actually bothered to look at it, IE5 is actually a halfway
> > decent browser. Outlook Express 5 is a halfway decent mail/newsreader.
> > Certainly streets ahead of Netscape Communicator.
>
> Very good points. "halfway decent" sums up MS perfectly.
>
> Cheap and halfway decent is enough for most people.
>
> Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
If you're talking about UI, then IE/OE 5.0 definitely win this round, but Netscape
is the result of better programming, and therefore is more stable, and won't screw
up my PC. That is why Linux users in general tend to use netscape, (as well as big
businesses). Some people like to get their work done, others prefer to stare at
IE's "cool animation of the week"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Help with editing makefiles
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:29:49 GMT
Thanks to you both, I'll check them out. Now if I could only figure
out how to resolve undefined symbol and other assorted errors when
all I wanna do is compile a stinking program without rewriting the
thing! *sigh*
Thanks again
mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Subject: Re: Setting up a special proxy/router
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 03:32:42 +0100
Andrew schrieb in Nachricht <7d986i$bot$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is there a way in Linux (Redhat 5.2 now, but I'll run any one I need to get
>the job done) to set it up as a proxy/router for multiple clients to
connect
>to the Internet through multiple modem connections to the Internet on the
>server. What we have is this:
>
>8 clients
>1 server
>All clients are Win NT 4.0 based. The Server is Linux. The server has 4
>modems in it. There are 4 phone lines running into the server.
>
>I want all the clients to be able to connect through the server. The only
>way I know to do this is in NT in which case we'd use a product like
>WinGate. Please tell me there is a way to do this in Linux, I'd rather go
>with it for security and stability reasons. Thanks for any help.
>
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
Hello Andrew,
why do you want to connect to the internet with _4_ modems?
Do you want to connect to 4 different providers?
Or is it just speed, that you want?
Normally you take one line, modem or ISDN, to connect to the outside and
all the traffic from the inside will routed through on this interface.
Perhaps it makes sense to take a seperat modem to do fax.
Please let us know, what the special reasons are, that make you want to use
4 lines?
Bernd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Subject: Re: Uninstall Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 04:08:39 +0100
Elizabeth Hincks schrieb in Nachricht
<7d99ag$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I put Linux on my laptop along with Win95. Now I need more room for the
>Win95 junk and I need to uninstall Linux
>
>Any ideas where I should start?
>Thanks,
>Liz
>
>
>Elizabeth Hincks
>617-234-0219
>www.adaptiveoptics.com
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
Hello Elizabeth,
DO _NOT_ UNINSTALL LINUX,
just try to get rid of some unneeded things,
=> docs, sources, log-files, backup-files, and even programms you don't use
in your linux-partition as well as in your "senseless95"-partition.
Done this, and still needing more room you should simly change
partition-sizes
as needed with a tool like "Partition-Magic 4".
(I think, there are also some free programs, that can do this =>Ziff Davis)
But if you REALY want to uninstall linux (think it over just one more time),
then you can start the win95 without GUI (just break booting up with <F5>),
start "fdisk /mbr" to get the win95-bootloader into the mbr,
start fdisk again without parameters,
get the partition info (normally <F4>)
check whether your win95 partition is marked activ (by an asteric, I
think)
if not, make the partition activ (<F2>)
delete all partitons marked "unknown",
create an "extended partition", if it doesn't allready exist,
create a "logical drive" with the size, win95 tells.
After rebooting without GUI,
To verify that "d:" is the drive to format, you may do a "dir d:"
and when you get an error-message, that's the drive-letter to format.
Assuming you had only drive C: under win before (and you did the "dir d:")
you format the new drive with "format d: /u".
Now you are without linux on your laptop {sniff}
Bernd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IE5 under Linux
Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:02:41 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
>spake unto us, saying:
>
>>They probably prefer to keep selling their own OS... But, it looks
>>like the new toy from www.vmware.com will let you run any flavor of
>>MS windows (including NT) as a guest under Linux. I'm impressed
>>with the beta after one day of playing... Too bad it's not free, but
>>it beats having several PCs on your desk or losing access to Linux
>>while you reboot to windows.
>
>Unless VMWare supports OS/2 as a client OS, it'll probably be something
>I'll play with but won't use beyond the beta period. I'll use VNC to
>show NT and Linux stuff on my OS/2 desktop instead. :-)
As a fun variation, you can run vnc on the virtual VMWare NT session
and access it in full screen elsewhere with vncviewer while it really
only exists minimized on your Linux desktop.
For some reason I haven't been able to get IE5 to install on it
yet.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Yoram Benchetrit)
Subject: printer HP 870cxi setting ?
Date: 24 Mar 1999 10:45:30 GMT
Hi all,
Thanks for your input, I have been able to get the driver,
compile it and link it to gs. I can now print against HP870cxi
(I have tested ascii file and ps file).
I still have a problem though, the printing of ascii and ps
file is _very slow_
It looks like the printer is directed to print in high resolution ?
Assuming this is the case, I have search how this could be set in
the pipeline used when we print that from my understanding is :
filter -> a2ps -> gs -> printer
(we can remove a2ps if we print gs file)
Even if this pipeline seems quite long, I cannot explain to myself
why it takes so long to print.
I have looked the argument (using ps) pass to the filter and to gs
but the setting of the printer resolution does not seem to be there.
I have looked at filter shell script (aps-cdj850-a4-auto-colo) and
found we are reading setting in /etc/apsfilterrc
PRINT_RAW_SETUP_PRINTER seems to set printer setting for ascii file
GS_FEATURES seems to set printer setting for ps file
My question is :
Could someone tell me what setting to use for PRINT_RAW_SETUP_PRINTER
and GS_FEATURES in /etc/apsfilterrc (cp it in .~/.apsfilterrc) to be
able printing against HP870cxi ascii and ps file (in color for ps file)
with a reasonable speed (not high quality).
Maybe someone is using a HP870cxi printer and could send me its setting?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Yoram
-- ps during printing
nathf 12425 27.0 0.7 1284 752 ? S 08:03 0:00
sh /usr/local/src/apsfilter/filter/aps-cdj850-a4-auto-color
-w132 -l66 -i0 -n nathf -h star.galaxy
/var/spool/lpd/cdj850-a4-auto-color/acct
nathf 12482 0.0 0.7 1284 760 ? S 08:03 0:00
sh /usr/local/src/apsfilter/filter/aps-cdj850-a4-auto-color
-w132 -l66 -i0 -n nathf -h star.galaxy
/var/spool/lpd/cdj850-a4-auto-color/acct
nathf 12483 0.0 3.2 5160 3076 ? R 08:03 0:01
gs -q -sDEVICE=cdj850 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=- -
-- filter file aps-cdj850-a4-auto-color argument
evaluate command line arguments that are given to the input filter
apsfilter [-c] -wwidth -llength -iindent -n login -h host acct-file
$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8
-- gs argument (man page)
-dNOPAUSE
Disables the prompt and pause at the end of each
page. This may be desirable for applications where
another program is driving Ghostscript.
-dSAFER
Disables the "deletefile" and "renamefile" opera-
tors and the ability to open files in any mode
other than read-only. This may be desirable for
spoolers or other sensitive environments where a
badly written or malicious PostScript program must
be prevented from changing important files.
-- /etc/apsfilterrc
######################################################################
# Description:
# -----------
# Some people reported, that printing long text's or C-Program listsing
# with apsfilter works great, but dog _slow_, since their printer isn't
# fast in printing grafik output (remember, is you print a ascii text, this
# text is first translated by a2ps into postscript, and after that it will
# be piped through gs, which translates Postscript to your printers
# grafik language .... Only printers like Deskjet 500 and such printers
# are able, to dothat Graphic output reasonably fast.
#
# So people wanted a feature, to skip file type auto recogniton, a2ps and
# gs to print listings and such with full speed.
#
# But some printer, especially HP printer, need some setup commandos,
# to do a carriage return, before the next line is printed, otherwise
# your print output looks like this (runs away to the right side 'til
# you don't see anything ...)
#
# First line: Some Text
# Next line: sdjhsdjhsd
# Next line: sdjhsdjhsd
#
# See your printers manual, what makes sense to be defined here !
#
# Here an example, what is nice to use with a HP Deskjet 500:
#
# print normal text with
# - cr/nl conversion
# - letter quality
# - 66 lines/page
# - left margin
# - 12 cpi pitch
#
# LINE TERMINATION \E & k # G
# 0 = CR=CR ; LF=LF ; FF=FF (default)
# 1 = CR=CR+LF; LF=LF ; FF=FF
# ** 2 = CR=CR ; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
# 3 = CR=CR+LF; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
#
# QUALITY \E ( s # Q
# 1 = draft = 240cps
# ** 2 = letter = 120cps (default)
#
# TEXT SCALE MODE \E & k # W
# 5 = off (default)
# 6 = on
# ignored in landscape mode
#
# PERFORATION SKIP MODE \E & l # L
# 0 = off = 0.0 in Top Margin
# 1 = on = 1/2 in Top Margin (default)
#
# LEFT MARGIN \E & a # L
# # Value = column number
# default = 0 = 1/8 in left margin
# used = 7 for 1" left margin
#
# PITCH \E ( s # H
# # = cpi
# default = 10 characters per inch
# ** 12 cpi
#
# Example:
# -------
# The desired printer setup escape sequence - suitable for printf(1) !!! -
# looks like this:
#
#PRINT_RAW_SETUP_PRINTER='\033&k2G\033(s2Q\033&k5W\033&l0L\033&a7L\033(s12H'
##########################################################################
# (5) Some of ghostscripts printer drivers have special features.
# Heres a way of enabling this special features if you need or like.
##########################################################################
# Description
# -----------
# For example most of ghostscripts (gs(1)) Color Deskjet drivers
# supports additionally functionality when printing color text or pictures.
# You should read the documentation that comes with ghostscript's sources
# very closely. An exerpt of this can be found in apsfilters doc directory,
# too.
#
# For a normal monochrome printer
#GS_FEATURES="-dBitsPerPixel=1"
# For color printer drivers, that offer more features like
# the stcolor driver for Stylus PRO
#GS_FEATURES="-dBitsPerPixel=32 -dMicroweave -sDithering=fscmyk"
#GS_FEATURES="-dBitsPerPixel=32 -dMicroweave"
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