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Subject:    Printer port locked
From:       Jack Bowling jbowling () direct ! ca
Date:       2000-07-30 22:31:32
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Just bought an Epson Stylus Color 860 bubblejet printer and attempted to
set it up on my RH6.1/kernel 2.2.14 box. First of all, I tried the generic
800 series drivers in printtool and they worked fine for text but barfed on
any postscript file. I then checked sourceforge for any updated drivers and
lo and behold, there was one for the gimp-print module. So I installed that
and Wham!, beautiful printing from the Gimp. Then I read the README in the
Ghost directory in the print source and it gave instructions on how to get
it into ghostscript. So after downloading the gs 6.01 source, adding the
patches and moving the header files over as detailed in the readme, I gave
the compile a spin. After several aborts due to either my spelling mistakes
in the make files or just general weirdness (it did not like one of the
Brother drivers so i just scrubbed that one), I finally had an stp driver
compiled into my ghostscript. After changing my environment paths to match
the newly installed gs6.01, I was set. Or so I thought......

Unfortunately, I could not get any postscript file to print from the
command line using the new setup. Not sure what i botched but I will have
to wait for a bit to figure it out. The reason being is that I have run
into the age old RH problem of printtool not seeing any ports when trying
to configure a printer so I can't even get back to the older ESC drivers. I
thought Bill Nottingham fixed this way back in October. Does anyone know
the "secret handshake" procedure for unlocking the ports so that printtool
can see them? I have tried tunelp but to no avail.

-- 
Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC

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