Hi, On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Damien wrote:
> Now that my 712 runs happily (Thanks), I would like to > connect an old Deskjet printer to its parallel port. I had this working for quite a while with a DeskJet 612C on my 715, before I moved it down into the basement. > - This printer works on a PC with Linux and Cups. > - Cups works on the HP712 workstation, printing on a network > postscript printer is OK. I didn't have my DeskJet set up as a postscript printer, it was set up as a 612C and was recognised as a 612C by Windows servers (using Samba and Cups). Having the Deskjet run as a postscript printer (unless it genuinely *is* a postscript printer) sounds a touch dubious to me, unless you have various (unnecessary, IMHO) contortions with Ghostscript going on... > But if I connect the printer to the HP 712 and configure > CUPS to use it, it only prints garbage. Is it text garbage or graphics garbage? Does it look like Postscript text? > I saw a previous thread about the need to load a > "parport_gsc" kernel module. I do have "CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC = > Y" in my kernel config file, but no such module... The relevant lsmod output on my 715 looks like this: lp 7028 0 (autoclean) parport_gsc 4184 1 parport 16180 1 [lp parport_gsc] The parallel port section in .config looks like this: # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set I don't think it should matter if you compile it into the kernel or as a module, though... Cheers, Steve
