Try the other driver as I have told to you and/or try again tomorrow
with the new 13mdk of cups-drivers. It is based on GIMP-Print 4.0beta1
and not any more on a patched 4.0alpha3.
Till
Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>
> Hi Till!
>
> I think I found the bug why the gimp-print driver does not work.
> I executed the program /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter by
> hand which is normally automatically called with PPD variable
> set to "/etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd" with the following parameters:
> rastertoprinter 10 katzmann test 1 0 raster
>
> (the "raster" file was created with pstoraster < <ps-file> >raster).
>
> As I created a new cups printer.conf I inluded that one as well:
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.3
> # Written by cupsd on Wed Sep 20 11:26:37 2000
> <DefaultPrinter lp>
> Info Canon BJC 6000
> Location Home
> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> </Printer>
>
> ltracing the pstoraster file gives me the following:
>
> ltrace /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter 10 katzmann test 1 0 raster
> __libc_start_main(0x08048e30, 7, 0xbffff5a4, 0x08048a70, 0x08062f84 <unfinished ...>
> __register_frame_info(0x080ffc10, 0x080ffde8, 0xbffff548, 0x400c896c, 0x401898c0) =
>0x40040280
> getenv("PPD") = "/etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd"
> ppdOpenFile(0xbfffffb0, 11, 0x400a69d8, 10, 0x401898c0) = 0x08100000
> strcmp("ps", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("ps2", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-340", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-400", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-500", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-520", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-501", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
> strcmp("pcl-540", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 14
>
> [...]
>
> strcmp("bjc-4400", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = -2
> strcmp("bjc-6000", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = -32
> strcmp("bjc-6100", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 1
> strcmp("bjc-7000", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 1
> strcmp("bjc-7100", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 1
> strcmp("bjc-8200", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 2
> strcmp("lexmark-4076", "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)") = 10
> fprintf(0x40187ca0, "ERROR: Fatal error: Unable to fi"...ERROR: Fatal error: Unable
>to find driver named "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)"!
> ) = 73
> ppdClose(0x08100000, 0x40012e70, 0xbffff578, 0x08048f1b, 0x40187ca0) = 0x081000b0
> __deregister_frame_info(0x080ffc10, 0x40009dba, 0x40013fd0, 0x400a6c48, 0x08048300)
>= 0x080ffde8
> +++ exited (status 1) +++
>
> By comparison you see that either the following line in the ppd is wrong:
> *ModelName: "bjc-6000 (GIMP-Print)"
> or that the comparison is based on another entry (Though I found only
> PCFileName being close to it:
> *PCFileName: "bjc-6000.ppd")
>
> To test my theory, I changed the ModelName entry and voila the error was
> gone. Now I was at the stage I had been already before: Only a blank page
> was printed and nothing else.
>
> The log now contains the lines (this does not appear in the webinterface
> as error message):
>
> D [20/Sep/2000:18:02:14 +0100] PageSize = 0x0
> E [20/Sep/2000:18:02:14 +0100] Unable to get media size!
> E [20/Sep/2000:18:02:14 +0100] PID 18482 crashed on signal 8!
> D [20/Sep/2000:18:02:16 +0100] ReadClient() 8 GET /printers/lp HTTP/1.0
>
> From the setting you can't know that I have to set my page size to A4
> (default Letter it too large for my paper and printer settings here
> in germany). There seems to be a problem with that :-(( In the PPD:
> *DefaultPageSize: A4
> *DefaultResolution: 360dpi
> *DefaultDither: AdaptHybrid
>
> As a test I set it back to letter and now I got a result:
> A complete black page instead of the wished test page. Also
> it did not stop there but suddenly consumed a whole lot of
> CPU and after 5 minutes waiting for continued printing I aborted.
> No crash any longer as before but nothing was added into the log
> anymore after the usual printout messages and a final CloseClient
> message. The processes consuming cpu times were "lp" and "parallel".
>
> Anyone out there who has made similar experiences ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Reinhard Katzmann
> --
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
