Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:43:47PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> > The attachment is a segment of the /var/log/cups/error_log beginnig two
> > lines before the first "false" result and continuing to the Ghostscript
> > exit. This was generated by trying to print a single line of text.
> >
> > If anyone can help resolve this problem I would appreciate the help.
> >
> > Background: The Epson Stylus Color 860 printer was working perfectly
> > with a purchased version of CUPS installed on a Debian Woody system with
> > a 2.4.18 kernel. It is attached to a USB port. At that time I was
> > using Gnome.
> >
> > Two changes took place. First, I switched to Testing and a 2.4.20
> > kernel trying to get an Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter to work - I have
> > never succeded. Second, I switched to KDE 2.2.25 to be consistant with
> > the other users in the family. To get the printer to work with KDE
> > installed the Debian cupsys, cupsomatic, gimp, gimp1.2-print and
> > escputil packages.
>
> It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set
> up properly. What output do you get to "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" and
> "cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers"?
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0005 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=EPSON
S: Product=USB Printer
S: SerialNumber=w21080004150213140
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
usbdevfs
hub
prism2_usb
0- 15: usblp
>
> According the http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html, the usb
> printer device should be /dev/usb/lp0. Below you indicate you are
> using /dev/usblp0 as as printer device. Typo? What is the output of "ls -l
> /dev/usblp0"?
>
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 0 Jan 24 2002 /dev/usblp0
> What does "lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps" print? Any error
> messages?
The printer prints the color octogon and L's previously described.
There are no error messages - that is grep error error_log and grep
false error_log return nothing. error_log exists and contains 1704
lines - I erased all the previous entries before running this test.
>
> >
> > Current Status: lp testtext prints nothing, generates the attached
> > error_log segment.
> > escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns the
> > printer status information.
> > A print test from either localhost:631 ir
> > kde prints a color octogon in the
> > upper left corner and two large
> > L-shaped bars (backward L's).
> > Gimp prints a nice picture.
> >
> > Note: I usually try to respond from mutt to attach the message to the
> > relavant string. With vi I have worked out how to open two files and
> > cut and paste between them but I haven't figured out how to paste or
> > attach a file to a response being generated by mutt. If there is a way
> > to do this, I would appreciate hearing about it.
> >
>
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] margins[] = [ 0.125000 0.125000 0.125000 0.000000 ]
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END INIT 300 1963328 618657 1622424 335134 true 1071 4 <0>
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END GLOBAL 300 1963328 622141 1622424 335540 false 1070 4 <0>
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END GC 330 1963328 600231 1622424 326318 false 1059 3 <0>
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Error: /syntaxerror in --%ztokenexec_continue--
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Operand stack:
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] --nostringval--
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Execution stack:
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Dictionary stack:
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] --dict:1059/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:68/200(L)--
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Current allocation mode is local
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Last OS error: 2
> > D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] ESP Ghostscript 7.05.4: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> This looks like an error from gs-esp. If you reinstall the gs-esp
> package, does the problem persist?
>
>
> --
> Jerome
Reply to: