Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
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 builddepen

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Ethan Benson
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.

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Dan Christensen
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 inst

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
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 E

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
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 drive

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-05 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
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. Howev

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
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) = 16

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Pollywog
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 a

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
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

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
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 (II

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
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 >

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
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 >

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
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

anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
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