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From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help w/ Ghostscript 3.53 & Epson printer
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:28:23 -0800
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I'm having trouble printing postscript files to an old Espon line
printer (FX80+). I've installed ghostscript 3.53. I checked gs with gs
-h to verify if the Espon driver was installed. It was not. I tried
re-installing gs from thr ports collection. This would only check the
checksums and then stop with no error messages. I then did pkg_delete
ghostscript-3.53 and re-installed it with the follwoing:
bash# pwd
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript3
bash# make -DEVICE_DEVS=epson.dev install
Gs still will not print *.ps files to the printer. The result from gs
-h are as follows:
bash$ gs -h
Aladdin Ghostscript 3.53 (1996-1-10)
Copyright (c) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights
reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Available devices:
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus
ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj
pjxl pjxl300 bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 faxg3 faxg32d
faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw
pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw
tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff24nc psmono
bit bitrgb bitcmyk nullpage
Language interpreters:
PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Search path:
.
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/3.53:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-c quit (as the last switch) exit after processing
files
-d<name>[=<token>] define name as token, or true if no token given
-dNOPAUSE don't pause between pages
-g<width>x<height> set width and height (`geometry'), in pixels
-q `quiet' mode, suppress most messages
-r<res> set resolution, in pixels per inch
-s<name>=<string> define name as string
-sDEVICE=<devname> select initial device
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: embed %d or %ld for page #,
- means stdout, use |command to pipe
- read from stdin (e.g., a pipe)
non-interactively
For more information, see the (plain text) file use.doc in the
directory
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/3.53/doc.
My question is: What do I need to do to get gs to talk to my printer?
FYI: Info on my system (from dmesg):
Copyright (c) 1992-1996 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Tue Jan 14 21:57:33 PST 1997
burton@bsampley.vip.best.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/Custom22
Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i586 clock:
60137956 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193216 Hz
CPU: Pentium (58.93-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x517 Stepping=7
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 83886080 (81920K bytes)
avail memory = 78741504 (76896K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0 <Intel 82434LX (Mercury) PCI cache memory controller> rev 3 on
pci0:0
pci0:1: CMD, device=0x0640, class=storage (ide) int a irq 14 [no
driver assigned]
chip1 <Intel 82378ZB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 3 on pci0:2
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 142 int a irq 11 on pci0:3
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
sio2: disabled, not probed.
sio3: disabled, not probed.
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC21600H>
wd0: 1549MB (3173184 sectors), 3148 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <CD-ROM CDU311/3.0i>, removable, accel, dma,
iordis
nca1 not found at 0x350
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
apm0: disabled, not probed.
pas0 at 0x388 irq 10 drq 6 on isa
pas0: <Pro AudioSpectrum 16D rev 127>
cmd XF86_SVGA pid 185 tried to use non-present SYSVSHM
bash$
Please email & post responses if possible.
Thanks in advance
Burton Sampley