firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
Hi. I just got around to compiling one of Benh's latest kernels on my Indigo iBook, and I have had a drastic improvement in a lot of things. 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. Also, sound almost works. Esd produces beeps when you start it up. Nothing else seems to work, though, besides system beeps. wavp produces static. There's no /dev/audio; that's a kernel compilation error on my part, I guess? BTW, I'm using the new devfs. It seems to work fine. 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. Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
"Phil Fraering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. There is a serious problem with Apples motherboard implementation of OHCI. It ignores all the byte swap registers (which seems to be legal according to the OHCI spec). There is a serious discussion of this going on in the Linux1394 project. There are 3 or so different possible solutions and they're zeroing in on which one should be implemented. I would expect a solution to available in CVS in the not too distant future. If you want more info check out the 'Big Endian OHCI patch' thread on linux1394-devel. jas.
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
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=0x0002 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 <---'
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
"Tuomas Kuosmanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? Yes. Look at linux1394.sourceforge.net. They have a recommendations page. Unless you've got an x86 box, I wouldn't run out and buy things just yet. The code to get firewire working on big-endian systems isn't even in CVS yet. jas.
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:26:21PM -0600, thus said Jason E. Stewart: > Yes. Look at linux1394.sourceforge.net. They have a recommendations > page. Okay, cool. > Unless you've got an x86 box, I wouldn't run out and buy things just > yet. The code to get firewire working on big-endian systems isn't even > in CVS yet. Yah, good to know. The point is I would be using the disk under native MacOS with a digital video camera and iMovie2 to learn video stuff. One needs a lot of scratch disk for that, and my laptop internal HD is too full. It would work okay for that purpose until there is Linux support, so it wouldnt just be used as a fishing bait until then :) Hopefully someone will start a video editing suite for Gnome at some point, I would love to help with the interface stuff etc. Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-. +> www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <+ `-> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'
gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)
On 24 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > 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. I couldn't find gs-stp. Any other ideas as to what it would be called? Or did you mean that somebody other than Debian has the Debian package? Couldn't find it on the sourceforge site. -- Charles Sebold 25th of Sivan, 5761 -- Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS
Re: gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0500, thus said Charles Sebold: > On 24 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > > 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. > > I couldn't find gs-stp. Any other ideas as to what it would be > called? Or did you mean that somebody other than Debian has the > Debian package? Couldn't find it on the sourceforge site. Oh. It's probably in testing/unstable then. You could try grabbing that package from there and seeing if it works with debian/stable version (I assume you have that as the package exists in testing) Or just get the sources if it depends on too many packages from unstable. There is a script to build the debian package of the ghostscript driver in the source tar.gz, with instructions. Best wishes, Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-. +> www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <+ `-> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'
Re: gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)
On 26 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: >> I couldn't find gs-stp. Any other ideas as to what it would be >> called? Or did you mean that somebody other than Debian has the >> Debian package? Couldn't find it on the sourceforge site. > > Oh. It's probably in testing/unstable then. You could try grabbing > that package from there and seeing if it works with debian/stable > version (I assume you have that as the package exists in testing) Thanks, I was running unstable and it didn't seem to be there. > Or just get the sources if it depends on too many packages from > unstable. There is a script to build the debian package of the > ghostscript driver in the source tar.gz, with instructions. I suppose I shall have to do that. Thanks for your time. -- Charles Sebold 26th of Sivan, 5761 -- Some may scoff at the hobby of astronomy, but sitting in an empty field in the middle of winter is a great way to see tiny little dots. -- The Onion's Stargazing Tips, http://www.theonion.com/onion3706/stargazing_tips.html
