Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, youareusingthe wrong driver

[gene heskett]

On 5/16/23 12:07, Brian wrote:

On Tue 16 May 2023 at 11:24:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote:


On 5/16/23 10:35, Brian wrote:

On Tue 16 May 2023 at 09:58:45 -0400, gene heskett wrote:


On 5/16/23 08:29, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:


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But yes, this is going nowhere - and there is no lsb package in Debian, I think.

Andy

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Couple that with my recent discovery that debian seems to be shipping the
cups from apple, last updated by its author in 2019.


Did your investigations involve reading a changelog?


whazzat? Trolling thru /usr/share/ looking for those is a pita. And far more
often, a waste of time, not containing a useful amount of data.


Mmm. That's a novel way to dispose of the usefulness of changelogs and not
have to acknowledge what appears to be disinformation.
  

Given that clue, I would be surprised to find a "cups" driver in the debian
repo's capable of driving a newer epson product.


Please give yourself a treat and use 'lpinfo -m' :).


Thanks, I just did and it appears to show both brothers installed drivers
and the driverless, but driverless is not complete for either printer, where
the makers ppd is. for the laser, toner would last forever, very thin,
faint, had to read output, the mfcj6920dw only uses top tray, which is $8
for 50 sheets glossy photo paper. Tray 2, the bottom one has up to 350 pages
of duplex copy paper, the obvious choice, but the driverless driver doesn't
use it.


You made a comment on Epson products and Debian. I was rather hoping you would
address that rather than bringing up your concern with a possibly buggy printer
from another vendor.

Sorry, I somewhat subscribe to the suggestion Sophie is a chatbot 
learning, and was more concerned with my own problem cups children. But 
a new kernel on this machine, the "server" seems to have fixed the 
armbian bullseye machines.  epson, given their recent attitude about 
linux, and I as a potential customer pretty much quit worrying about 
them since ink or toner for the brothers cuts my per page costs 
noticeably. I've killed a lot of trees since the early 80's. In a way, 
I'm glad they wouldn't sell me a new high voltage board, the color 
reproduction of this inkjet is far far superior to anything I ever got 
out of the color laser.


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this,youareusingthe wrong driver

[gene heskett]

On 5/16/23 11:30, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:52:28AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:

gnutls28-dev worked, all tests pass. thanks Greg. How do I now make
installable deb's? I think I have dh installed.


I wouldn't even try.  That would be a *project*.


Chuckle, but sir, I am doing it, for linuxcnc n an rpi4b! I can install 
them over the top of the buildbots output if I want, or if the buildbot 
gets a tummy ache.



This is the sort of thing that you install in /opt or /usr/local and
write your own systemd unit files or init.d scripts for, possibly
cannibalizing the Debian ones if they exist.


If it works, I'd prefer the packaging system knows about it.


That said, since this involves printers, I would just ask Brian what
to do.  He seems to know them extremely well, certainly better than I
do, though that's a low bar to pass.

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Thanks Greg.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
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Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, youareusingthe wrong driver

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:52:28AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> gnutls28-dev worked, all tests pass. thanks Greg. How do I now make
> installable deb's? I think I have dh installed.

I wouldn't even try.  That would be a *project*.

This is the sort of thing that you install in /opt or /usr/local and
write your own systemd unit files or init.d scripts for, possibly
cannibalizing the Debian ones if they exist.

That said, since this involves printers, I would just ask Brian what
to do.  He seems to know them extremely well, certainly better than I
do, though that's a low bar to pass.

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, youareusingthe wrong driver

[gene heskett]

On 5/16/23 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:20:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:

On 5/16/23 10:03, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:59 AM gene heskett  wrote:

Couple that with my recent discovery that debian seems to be shipping
the cups from apple, last updated by its author in 2019. The new cups
site, openprinting.org copy's src cups-master.zip is about 2.5 times the
size of the debian src, and it builds on bullseye with only one option
to "./configure with-tls=no" (presumably because debian doesn't have
libtls, I couldn't find it)


libtls is part of libressl from the OpenBSD folks. See, for example,
https://github.com/bob-beck/libtls/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md .



Thanks Jeff, but it does not appear in synaptic here on a bullseye install.
should I add another repo?  That's scary. I only do that on my buster
machines to add the linuxcnc buildbot because I run master on my machines.


Debian provides OpenSSL (libssl-dev or the older libssl1.0-dev) and GnuTLS
(libgnutls28-dev).  Chances are, at least one of these will work.

gnutls28-dev worked, all tests pass. thanks Greg. How do I now make 
installable deb's? I think I have dh installed.



Most projects that want TLS support are developed around OpenSSL, so
you should try that first.  Or, read the project's INSTALL or README
files and see what it says to use.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
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