Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
When I thought about recompiling GS in potato, I read its documents for required action. The packager states that you need to have some source code next to where you start compiling GS. --+-- GS tree | +-- some source tree (SVGA lib or png or something) So this source package with builddepends are not complete without manual intervention. I think... So I did not compile On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:14PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:02:57PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: Where did it fail? The Debian specific instructions are pretty detailed. Did you install the packages they say are needed? yup i followed the instructions, installed all build deps, that wasn't it, the code is just broken. -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/pc/ Cupertino, CA USA +
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:41:29AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: For the record, the stp driver in gs works great for me with my epson stylus color 860. The print-4.0a3 package, available from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, contains instructions for recompiling gs with the stp driver which are specifically for Debian. i tried this but it did not even compile Also available there is a .deb of the gimp which has the driver built in, which allows you to print images. i need more then gimp to be able to print. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpngYz7hHgFA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the supported printer of the stp driver). well i need to use lprng since i need other networked machines to access it as well. pdq as i understand it is a daemonless localhost only thing. You can use pdq/xpdq anyway as a front-end to the lprng printer spooling. The binary debian gs package don't have the stp driver compiled by default, but is present in the sources. I've found some trouble compiling myself the package (needs small changes in the sources) but the printer is now working. i noticed, gs is simply broken, when run by lprng (or by anyone for that matter, it only works in X) all it does is spit out `svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.' regardless of driver or anything i do this is all it does. i have tried compiling it without svga support but that just makes it crash. I should have mentioned that the version of gs i was referring is the 5.10-11 (the gs present in sid). Anyway, the pdq driver created (a couple of weeks ago) with the linuxprinting foomatic for the 880 is, at a first glance, incomplete: the only parameter passed to gs is the printer model (correct me if i'm wrong), so the printer is working only in 360 dpi. Passing manually the parameters to gs i was able to print in higer resolution (1420x720), so it's only a matter to enhance the pdq driver. all these drivers use gs, which is broken and unusable. You could make a try to compile the sid version... I'm not so skilled in bash scripting, but i've started to modify the pdq driver myself... Hope this could help. unfortunatly not, nobody has been able to tell me why gs does not function. i think i may just return this thing and get a used Apple laserwriter off ebay, these are true postscript printers and won't need this filter crap. thanks anyway. The color option is nice, but i think a laser ps printer should be a better choice for me too... Andrea
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0900 Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. I bought an Epson 680 yesterday and spent much of the day trying to get good output with the gimp-print plugin. I was disappointed that the print quality wasn't as good as that from the Windows drivers. May be with lots of tweaking of settings . . Anyway, right at the end of the evening, I noticed a posting on the Linux-usb board about a driver Epson in Japan had written for the 680/777, 880 and 980 models. I downloaded the rpm and it installed cleanly onto my Debian box. The print quality is everything I wanted *and* there is a GUI tool for setting paper type, print quality etc.. Wonderful!! I have never seen such good quality colour printing from Linux before. You need to add the stanza in /etc/printcap manually, and also the spool file, but it is all explained in the release notes. Took all of 5 minutes to get working. Not sure if it will apply to your model, but worth a try. The url is: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/pro_e/pips_e.html Fingers crossed. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:42:15PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I should have mentioned that the version of gs i was referring is the 5.10-11 (the gs present in sid). yes i tried that too. You could make a try to compile the sid version... i did, same result. The color option is nice, but i think a laser ps printer should be a better choice for me too... i have gotten a few messages saying the color does not work very spectacularly anyway. i am just going to find a used apple laserwriter or some other true postscript printer. i don't want to rebuild half the distribution from scratch and maintain it all manually just to keep this bloody thing working. rant whose ingenious idea was it to move from using a open standard like postscript where the printer needs nothing more then postscript data which allows for it to work perfectly under ANY OS that supports postcript. to making each and every printer (and submodel thereof) have its very own proprietary language requiring its very own special driver. talk about absurd wheel reinvention, endless wheel reinvention... /rant -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpPfiu827dWR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:41:29AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: For the record, the stp driver in gs works great for me with my epson stylus color 860. The print-4.0a3 package, available from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, contains instructions for recompiling gs with the stp driver which are specifically for Debian. i tried this but it did not even compile Where did it fail? The Debian specific instructions are pretty detailed. Did you install the packages they say are needed? -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:02:57PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: Where did it fail? The Debian specific instructions are pretty detailed. Did you install the packages they say are needed? yup i followed the instructions, installed all build deps, that wasn't it, the code is just broken. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpkuZKm5w3LC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
Ethan Benson wrote: see subject, all the documentation i have been following on linuxprinting.org involves ghostscript, which is broken on debian. (see my other mail, all it does when run by lpd is spit out svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.) if anyone has gotten this or a similar model working on debian could you tell me what you did? (i did not find anything useful in the list archives) I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the supported printer of the stp driver). The binary debian gs package don't have the stp driver compiled by default, but is present in the sources. I've found some trouble compiling myself the package (needs small changes in the sources) but the printer is now working. Anyway, the pdq driver created (a couple of weeks ago) with the linuxprinting foomatic for the 880 is, at a first glance, incomplete: the only parameter passed to gs is the printer model (correct me if i'm wrong), so the printer is working only in 360 dpi. Passing manually the parameters to gs i was able to print in higer resolution (1420x720), so it's only a matter to enhance the pdq driver. I'm not so skilled in bash scripting, but i've started to modify the pdq driver myself... Hope this could help. Andrea
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the supported printer of the stp driver). well i need to use lprng since i need other networked machines to access it as well. pdq as i understand it is a daemonless localhost only thing. The binary debian gs package don't have the stp driver compiled by default, but is present in the sources. I've found some trouble compiling myself the package (needs small changes in the sources) but the printer is now working. i noticed, gs is simply broken, when run by lprng (or by anyone for that matter, it only works in X) all it does is spit out `svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.' regardless of driver or anything i do this is all it does. i have tried compiling it without svga support but that just makes it crash. Anyway, the pdq driver created (a couple of weeks ago) with the linuxprinting foomatic for the 880 is, at a first glance, incomplete: the only parameter passed to gs is the printer model (correct me if i'm wrong), so the printer is working only in 360 dpi. Passing manually the parameters to gs i was able to print in higer resolution (1420x720), so it's only a matter to enhance the pdq driver. all these drivers use gs, which is broken and unusable. I'm not so skilled in bash scripting, but i've started to modify the pdq driver myself... Hope this could help. unfortunatly not, nobody has been able to tell me why gs does not function. i think i may just return this thing and get a used Apple laserwriter off ebay, these are true postscript printers and won't need this filter crap. thanks anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphbqzvigRYB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:46:45AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the supported printer of the stp driver). well i need to use lprng since i need other networked machines to access it as well. pdq as i understand it is a daemonless localhost only thing. Do you need to use lprng or just something that accepts print jobs over the network? If the latter, check out CUPS (packages cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client). It prefers ipp (internet printing protocol), but (IIRC) it also handles lpr-style network printing. Like the earlier respondent, I've got an 880 instead of an 870, but the CUPS drivers don't seem to care much about those details. Just tell it you've got an Epson printer and which of 4 categories the printer falls into, and it seems to work passably well. (Greyscale works perfectly, but color print jobs come out horribly oversaturated (in the color-applied-too-heavily sense, which may or may not be related to the technical definition of chromatic saturation) - except for the printer test page, where they also work fine. I'm sure it's fixable, but I so rarely want to print in color, it's not been worth my time to look into it yet. Also, with the single generic driver, some special features of the printer may not be supported.) No external software (gs, stp) is needed. -- SGI products are used to create the 'Bugs' that entertain us in theatres and at home. - SGI job posting Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+ L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Do you need to use lprng or just something that accepts print jobs over the lprng. network? If the latter, check out CUPS (packages cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client). It prefers ipp (internet printing protocol), but (IIRC) it also handles lpr-style network printing. i really don't want to mess with cups. Like the earlier respondent, I've got an 880 instead of an 870, but the CUPS drivers don't seem to care much about those details. Just tell it you've got an Epson printer and which of 4 categories the printer falls into, and it seems to work passably well. (Greyscale works perfectly, but color print jobs come out horribly oversaturated (in the color-applied-too-heavily sense, which may or may not be related to the technical definition of chromatic saturation) - except for the printer test page, where they also work fine. I'm sure it's fixable, but I so rarely want to print in color, it's not been worth my time to look into it yet. Also, with the single generic driver, some special features of the printer may not be supported.) No external software (gs, stp) is needed. if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpskKgpMxZsp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:46:45AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: (...) i noticed, gs is simply broken, when run by lprng (or by anyone for that matter, it only works in X) all it does is spit out `svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.' regardless of driver or anything i do this is all it does. i have tried compiling it without svga support but that just makes it crash. (...) unfortunatly not, nobody has been able to tell me why gs does not function. i think i may just return this thing and get a used Apple laserwriter off ebay, these are true postscript printers and won't need this filter crap. maybe we can get that gs-thing solved somehow, before you throw away your printer... ;) Actually this gs problem made me curious, however, I was unable to reproduce it here, probably due to a different setup. Which exact gs command do you use when getting the error? Which version of ghostscript? Have you tried it with a non-dummy installation of libsvga, if so, did it fail too? How did gs crash when compiled without svga support? Maybe you could also post an strace of the failing gs command (or send it to me privately if you feel that is is too lengthy for the list)? Don't know whether I'll be able to help, but perhaps we could start narrowing things down a little... Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0900, Ethan Benson said: if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. I have a Stylus Color 740 and got it going using the printtool package. Magicfilter works as well. Recently it has started painting vertical lines when I print in color, but I am not sure why. Maybe I need a new color ink cartridge. -- Andrew
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:50:55AM +, Pollywog wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0900, Ethan Benson said: if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. I have a Stylus Color 740 and got it going using the printtool package. Magicfilter works as well. Recently it has started painting vertical lines when I print in color, but I am not sure why. Maybe I need a new color ink cartridge. magicfilter causes it to print: svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp3FSc6BUQ2W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:03:17AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
maybe we can get that gs-thing solved somehow, before you throw away your
printer... ;)
that would be nice.
Actually this gs problem made me curious, however, I was unable to
reproduce it here, probably due to a different setup.
Which exact gs command do you use when getting the error? Which version
whatever magicfilter, apsfilter, or lpdomatic from linuxprinting.org
use.
of ghostscript? Have you tried it with a non-dummy installation of libsvga,
the one in potato Version: 5.10-10.1
if so, did it fail too? How did gs crash when compiled without svga
support? Maybe you could also post an strace of the failing gs command
(or send it to me privately if you feel that is is too lengthy for the
list)?
with real svgalib i get the permissions error with the fake one i get
something like this:
Unrecoverable error: ioerror in .setdevice
Operand stack:
--nostringval--
Unexpected interpreter error -12.
Error object: (f80)op(379:.setdevice)0x10056274
Operand stack at 0x101b5888:
0x101bcef8: 0x13 devc --Gwrx--- 0x01ec 0x10204128
Execution stack at 0x101b58d8:
0x101be860: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x1003aaf8 = %interp_exit
0x101be868: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x101c2058
0x101be870: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x 0x1003c218
0x101be878: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0001 = 1
0x101be880: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0007 0x0004 = 4
0x101be888: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x1003c200 = %oparray_pop
0x101be890: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0002 0x101c2e44
0x101be898: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x101f5bca
Dictionary stack at 0x101b5820:
0x101bf090: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x5ea8 0x101bf1f8
0x101bf098: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xf6c0 0x102027e8
0x101bf0a0: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x597c 0x101c61d8
0x101bf0a8: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x5ea8 0x101bf1f8
i also get that on my powerpc which has no svgalib.
here is the relevant portion of strace for the permission error:
stat(/proc/bus/pci, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/vga/libvga.config, O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16082, ...}) = 0
read(4, # Configuration file for svgalib..., 16082) = 16082
close(4)= 0
open(/plato/eb/.svgalibrc, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
ioperm(0x3b4, 0x2c, 0x1)= -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(1, svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissi..., 37svgalib: Cannot get I/O
permissions.
it shouldn't even be messing with svgalib, its not needed for acting
as a filter.
Don't know whether I'll be able to help, but perhaps we could start
narrowing things down a little...
just for kicks i made gs suid root, which is totally unacceptable for
production, and that made it start printing `your not the owner of
your controlling terminal' or somesuch.
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:11:10PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
stat(/proc/bus/pci, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/vga/libvga.config, O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16082, ...}) = 0
read(4, # Configuration file for svgalib..., 16082) = 16082
close(4)= 0
open(/plato/eb/.svgalibrc, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
ioperm(0x3b4, 0x2c, 0x1)= -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(1, svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissi..., 37svgalib: Cannot get I/O
permissions.
it shouldn't even be messing with svgalib, its not needed for acting
as a filter.
exactly -- at least that's what one would expect.
Normally gs should just load the svga shared lib, but not start reading
related config files, etc. However, the fact that in your case it does
proceed as if it wanted to init the svga driver, makes me guess that
there might be some problem with the device specification in the gs
command (that's why I asked for that exact command). In that case it
would be possible that gs falls back to the built-in default device
(x11 when in X, and that stupid svga thing when in console mode).
To clarify this further: what happens if you take the following
trivial PostScript fragment
%!PS
/Helvetica findfont 36 scalefont setfont
10 10 moveto (testpage) show
showpage
and for example run the following gs command
gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=test.jpg -g150x50 -dBATCH test.ps
(assuming you saved the PS under test.ps, of course)
This should create a small jpeg file without messing around with
svgalib. When I run something like this under strace I don't see
anything like what you get above before it fails.
Does at least that work for you or do you get the same error?
Erdmut
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Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:22:50AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: exactly -- at least that's what one would expect. Normally gs should just load the svga shared lib, but not start reading related config files, etc. However, the fact that in your case it does proceed as if it wanted to init the svga driver, makes me guess that there might be some problem with the device specification in the gs command (that's why I asked for that exact command). In that case it would be possible that gs falls back to the built-in default device (x11 when in X, and that stupid svga thing when in console mode). the lpdomatic filters use the uniprint driver. another version uses stp which is not available in gs. (in either potato or woody/sid) To clarify this further: what happens if you take the following trivial PostScript fragment %!PS /Helvetica findfont 36 scalefont setfont 10 10 moveto (testpage) show showpage and for example run the following gs command gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=test.jpg -g150x50 -dBATCH test.ps (assuming you saved the PS under test.ps, of course) this worked. so it would seem debian's gs does not have a suitable driver for this printer? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpY9gDYiSRS6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
For the record, the stp driver in gs works great for me with my epson stylus color 860. The print-4.0a3 package, available from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, contains instructions for recompiling gs with the stp driver which are specifically for Debian. Also available there is a .deb of the gimp which has the driver built in, which allows you to print images. Dan
Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:41:28PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:22:50AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: exactly -- at least that's what one would expect. Normally gs should just load the svga shared lib, but not start reading related config files, etc. However, the fact that in your case it does proceed as if it wanted to init the svga driver, makes me guess that there might be some problem with the device specification in the gs command (that's why I asked for that exact command). In that case it would be possible that gs falls back to the built-in default device (x11 when in X, and that stupid svga thing when in console mode). the lpdomatic filters use the uniprint driver. another version uses stp which is not available in gs. (in either potato or woody/sid) it seems as if there's a special gs package with stp included: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/sourceforge/gimp-print/gs_5.10stp-10_i386.deb also, in there you'll find a README.stp.gz with further infos on how to build it from source, etc. -- just in case you need to. Can't tell you whether it works, though, because I don't own that printer -- from the docs it sounds promising :) Good luck, Erdmut To clarify this further: what happens if you take the following trivial PostScript fragment %!PS /Helvetica findfont 36 scalefont setfont 10 10 moveto (testpage) show showpage and for example run the following gs command gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=test.jpg -g150x50 -dBATCH test.ps (assuming you saved the PS under test.ps, of course) this worked. so it would seem debian's gs does not have a suitable driver for this printer? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
see subject, all the documentation i have been following on linuxprinting.org involves ghostscript, which is broken on debian. (see my other mail, all it does when run by lpd is spit out svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.) if anyone has gotten this or a similar model working on debian could you tell me what you did? (i did not find anything useful in the list archives) TIA. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpdayGeQDYTs.pgp Description: PGP signature
