I'm not proficient enough to help you on this Mel except to say that it is
inherently not a problem with Debian unstable. I run the latest (2.8)
version of Libranet which is mostly Debian testing & unstable and everything
works fine including cups.
Regards
Mel
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From: "Mel Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Cups using Debian unstable
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Thanks again for the reply.
The driver is mostlikely fine ( same one I had running on mdk 9.1 --that
worked well). I did have and tried them all, and yes I had all those Deb
packages you asked about.
What I had in mind was different. I had been struggling lately getting the
correct working versions of things on this distro. So I would be curious
what
versions of prgms you run on your unstable ?
things like cups, samba, aptitude, apt-get.
I was fighting with it of late.
The latest samba did not work with LinNeighborhood for me, so I down graded
to
an older samba's so LinNeighborhood can brouse OK now.
I noticed one web resource suggested I put in kdelibs3-cups (from kdelibs3),
but I had kdelibs4 installed and it conflicts, so hence the fight was on.
Aptitude looks like it acts up intermittently now (never use to) giving a
SEG
FAULT (most annoying - and I loose all my changes (must start over and
over))
All I want is the latest and the greatest, plus stable, is that too much to
ask ? ;-) Hopefully I will catch on.
Thanks
Mel
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:32 pm, you wrote:
> Mel,
>
> The only other thing I can think of is you might be having a driver
> problem. Which drivers have you tried? I think the newest printer drivers
> come in the foomatic-bin foomatic-db-gimp-print packages from
> linuxprinting.org. From your original message it sounds like you might
> have already done this but if you have the above packages installed you
> should get drivers named something like "foomatic+gimpprint" for your
> printer model. Try using those instead of the "CUPS+gimpprint" drivers.
>
> ~Scott
>
> On May 30, 2003 02:57 am, Mel Walters wrote:
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> > Just am not getting this and I am over tired. Thought I had it fixed,
but
> > was wrong.
> > When it was printing the ipp functions would NOT work.
> > Now I got all that going, but I get the error below, yet gs and gs-esp
> > work fine to look at the tiger.ps file. (Thats the gs-esp 7.05.6-2 that
> > is used instead of cupsys-pstorastor)
> > When I turn up the error to debug I do NOT get any more usefull info.
> >
> > How do you Debian (unstable) linux guru's out there do YOUR cups
printing
> > ?
> >
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:52 -0600] New printer 'BJC4300' added by 'root'.
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' modified by 'root'.
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' now accepting jobs
> > ('root'). I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> > I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' started by 'root'.
> > I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Job 20 queued on 'BJC4300' by 'root'.
> > E [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable
> > format for job 20!
> > I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript
> > installed? I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel
> > to "debug".
> >
> > thanks
> > Mel
> >
> > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:09 pm, you wrote:
> > > Thanks for your help, I have this problem and one some more repaired
> > > now.
> > >
> > > I rather than go through all the gory details, I would like to get a
> > > thumb nail sketch of may path.
> > > Since may upgrade to Deb unstable my LinNeighborhood and smbclient,
> > > etc. was not working correctly. So I decided to try down grading samba
> > > using Aptitude. This was a little tricky at first but worked well,
> > > bringing up the function of accessing our samba server here Not much
in
> > > the way of dependency snarls for samba once I set it on hold after the
> > > older version got installed. I thought of trying some think similar
> > > with Cups, but soon aborted that idea. Looked bad and was going to
take
> > > forever, so I dropped that. Then I thought I may try to look at KDE
> > > since that was going to brake if I down graded Cups.
> > >
> > > So I used Aptitude to install the KDE metapackage 4:3.1.1 which had
all
> > > the dependencies needed to install the official KDE package.
> > > A little more printer driver config and I was printing just as good as
> > > before. Think I am getting the knack of the Happy Dedian Workstation,
> > > and I like it MUCH so far. I am getting so much of my wish list
running
> > > trouble free(er:) Even got the latest GnuCash going, with its Small
> > > Business functions, tutorial etc.
> > > Thanks again.
> > >
> > > Mel Walters
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:02 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Well, if gs is installed correctly "gs filename" should be enough to
> > > > display the file on the screen. Note that some of the samples in
> > > > /usr/share/doc/gs-esp/examples/ might be gziped and could confuse gs
> > > > if you attempt to display them without decompressing them. Does "gs
> > > > /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps" work? If so, when you go to
> > > > http://localhost:631/ is your printer correctly configured and can
> > > > you print the test page? If not maybe posting your
> > > > /var/log/cups/error_log could be of some help.
> > > >
> > > > ~Scott
> > > >
> > > > On May 27, 2003 03:42 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
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> > > > > On May 27, 2003 01:02 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > > Try installing gs-esp if you haven't already. It renders
> > > > > > postscript as
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes I have that already.
> > > > > When I look at cupsys 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > then --\ Depends
> > > > > tells me I have --\ gs-esp 7.05.6-2 installed
> > > > >
> > > > > I did not yet see anyway to configure or check it out. ??
> > > > > and it appears to function somewhat
> > > > > ================================= eg
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gs-esp -sDEVICE=bbox
> > > > > /usr/share/doc/gs-esp/examples/golfer.ps
> > > > > ESP Ghostscript 7.05 (2003-02-05)
> > > > > Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights
> > > > > reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file
PUBLIC
> > > > > for details. %%BoundingBox: 14 37 570 719
> > > > > %%HiResBoundingBox: 14.308066 37.547999 569.495061 718.319158
> > > > >
> > > > > >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> > > > >
> > > > > GS>quit
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > > > > ==================================eg END
> > > > > from the gs-esp man page
> > > > > prints out
> > > > >
> > > > > %%BoundingBox: 0 25 583 732
> > > > > %%HiResBoundingBox: 0.808497 25.009496 582.994503
> > > > > 731.809445 ====
> > > > >
> > > > > > graphics which is what Cups is complaining about (missing
> > > > > > pstoraster).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ~Scott
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On May 27, 2003 01:42 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
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> > > > > > > Hi all
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have been working on this and it's just not fallen into
> > > > > > > place, very odd ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I get this error with debug status on
> > > > > > > Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 50!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I am told this error is caused by not having the pstoraster
> > > > > > > filter included in ESP GhostScript, or not having applied the
> > > > > > > GhostScript patches in the pstoraster directory of the CUPS
> > > > > > > sources. With advice I need to install ESP GhostScript or the
> > > > > > > patch starting with CUPS 1.1.15. I'm not sure yet if this
> > > > > > > applies to my case.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > These are the deb packages I have installed:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > libcupsimage2 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > libcupsimage2-dev 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > cupsys-pt 1.0.2-2
> > > > > > > cupssys-driver-gimpprint 4.2.5-3
> > > > > > > libcupsys2-dev 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > libcupsys2 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > cupsys 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > cupsys-bsd 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > cupsys-client 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > > cupsomatic-ppd 0.20010420-4
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I believe I am using the same driver that worked fine while
> > > > > > > running mandrake 9.1and it worked great
> > > > > > > and that was
> > > > > > > CANON BJC 4300, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5
> > > > > > > as I am using a BJC-4300ex printer
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But I have tried two or three others with the same debug
error.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any one know were to start ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Mel Walters
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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